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...sculpture?" Through Tilted Arc, he told the March hearing, "the viewer becomes aware of himself and of his movement through the plaza . . . Step by step the perception not only of the sculpture but of the entire environment changes." One would think it was meant to be like the black slab in 2001, bestowing consciousness on oblivious apes...
...right out of late medieval German sculpture, and so do the claustrophobic spaces they inhabit--shallow, pleated, distorted into shoving and butting against the four edges of the canvas. The "naive" determination of 15th century carvers to get a deep room and a whole Last Supper out of a slab of limewood not much thicker than a plank--with the result that everything stands up and out, as if in fright--got transferred to Beckmann's argument with the flat canvas. Even the gestures are religious. Thus the showing of outstretched palms, Beckmann's favorite sign for pathos and surrender...
...creating unadorned, mechanical-looking buildings that startle the eye with their loud primary colors and jazzy architectural stunts. Consider, for example, the firm's Atlantis condominium, an apartment tower with a bright blue grid on one side. Twelve stories up, a huge hole has been cut into the slab. The open-air décor of this "sky court" features a swaying palm tree, a curved yellow wall, a red spiral staircase and a blue whirlpool...
...firm's best-known buildings is the controversial Palace in Miami. It consists of a plain 41-story slab with a three-story glass-cube penthouse on top. Rammed right through the side of the slab is what seems like another, smaller building of glass and red stucco. For added drama (and terrace patios), the red interloper steps down like giant stairs...
...waves the bright aquamarine binder that holds the text of Enough and warns, "Look closely. It's about the jolliest piece of color you're likely to find in a Beckett evening." It is indeed. In Footfalls, Whitelaw plays a tattered woman patrolling, ever so slowly, a slab of light about the size of a cemetery plot. Into and beyond the grave, she relives her days feeding and changing her aged mother, dominating the mother with her dogged servitude, then slipping into reverie to imagine her self the sad heroine of a gothic novel...