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Daniel Göttin, "SIXXS," 2003
Göttin, born in Basel in 1959, was a Chinati Foundation artist-in-residence in 1993, and has returned several times since to Marfa. He is known internationally for creating in situ installation works based on the specific configurations of the architecture, and his work has been exhibited in numerous cities, including Tokyo, Melbourne, and Zurich.
A notable series is one in which he applies colored, industrial cloth tape directly to walls in extended patterns that resemble the fissures found in desiccated earth and frozen freshwater lakes. The mathematics underlying this pattern, which express the most efficient way to distribute stress on a surface, are the same as that used by Buckminster Fuller in his geodesic structures. The tape thus breaks uniform walls with patterns that evoke natural surfaces, and that appear random but are not. He often reproduces photographs of these large-scale works as postcards presented in boxed sets.
"SIXXS" contains six prints, each containing a node from such a pattern. Each page presents the intersection of two black lines on a different field of color. When exhibited next to each other the intersections resonate with both a larger pattern and each other.
by Bill Fox
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