Issue #113 Impossible Objects: A Conversation

Impossible Objects: A Conversation

Trevor Paglen and Alessandra Franetovich

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Trevor Paglen, Orbital Reflector (Triangle Variation #4) Scale Model, 2020. Aluminum, mirror foil, steel wire, Kapton tape. 551 × 775 × 66 cm (216 7/8 × 305 1/8 × 26 in.) Installation view at OGR Torino Trevor Paglen: Unseen Stars. Copyright: Trevor Paglen. Courtesy of the Artist and Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco. 

Issue #113
November 2020










Notes
1

I can think of only one other historical example of this in the work of Yuri Leiderman. See my “Cosmic Thoughts: The Paradigm of Space in Moscow Conceptualism,” e-flux journal no. 99 (April 2019) .

2

Kazimir Malevich, “Suprematism”, in Tenth State Exhibition: Objectless Creation and Suprematism, 1919; reprinted in Russian Art of the Avant-Garde: Theory and Criticism, 1902–1934, ed. and trans. John E. Bowlt (Thames and Hudson, 1998), 145.

3

Kazimir Malevich, Suprematizm: 34 risunka (Suprematism: 34 Drawings), (Vitebsk: UNOVIS, 1920).