The Red Wall (Queens I) 

A wall in­stal­la­tion de­signed for the “Cor­bu­sian” ramp run­ning from the first to sec­ond floor of the Queens Mu­seum in New York and con­sist­ing of the di­ag­o­nal ramp wall painted red plus a framed text mounted half-way up the ramp. The text is a fic­tional de­bate be­tween three fig­ures promi­nent in 20th Cen­tury art and ar­chi­tec­ture: Le Cor­busier, Theo van Does­burg, and Don­ald Judd. The three speak­ers de­bate the op­ti­cal and spa­tial ef­fects of colour in ar­chi­tec­ture with each state­ment based on pub­lished man­i­festoes and in­ter­views which are then wo­ven into a con­ver­sa­tion. The di­a­logue is also avail­able as a pam­phlet to be taken away by mu­seum vis­i­tors.

 

The Red Wall (Queens II)

A sec­ond analy­sis of the same site at the Queens Mu­seum, this time a pair of dig­i­tal prints are mounted ad­ja­cent to the red wall. The left print is an ax­ono­met­ric draw­ing of the in­stal­la­tion, and the right print a de­tail from the first draw­ing that erases the il­lu­sion of depth, re­sult­ing in a flat graphic com­po­si­tion. This is a study of the “depth thresh­old”, the point at which three-di­men­sional il­lu­sion ei­ther ap­pears or evap­o­rates. The huge red tri­an­gle of the Red Wall could be seen from a dis­tance through the mu­seum’s two-storey win­dows fac­ing Flush­ing Mead­ows park.

Doc­u­men­ta­tion: In­stal­la­tion views; pam­phlet; de­tails of prints for The Red Wall (Queens II)

 

 

The Red Wall (Queens I)

Ter­ence Gower, 2004

Framed dig­i­tal print on red wall, pam­phlet

Print: 22 x 28 cm

 

 

The Red Wall (Queens II)

Ter­ence Gower, 2005

Two framed dig­i­tal prints, red wall

Prints: 52 x 47.6 cm each

 

Brochure: The Red Wall

The Red Wall (Queens I & II)⤓