http://samhorowitzart.com/art Environmental Art Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:36:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://samhorowitzart.com/art/statement/comment-page-1#comment-1313 Jose Sanjines Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:36:37 +0000 http://samhorowitzart.com/art/?page_id=14#comment-1313 I'm a friend of Pedro writing a book on intersemiosis... I just finished writing these lines about how artists create their own languages. My previous example was Magritte. ... or the “environmental art” of emerging artist Sam Horowitz who takes the vocabulary of recycled material, such as cases and cardboard boxes, and gives it a new syntax. His “Writing” contains its own codes, much as the work of Gordon Mat-ta-Clark who re-conceptualized the spaces in which we live and work—houses, office buildings, factories—by deconstructing them in various ways, sometime by laboriously planning and cutting large openings in the walls of buildings, thus turning over our most familiar enclosures, sometimes just to let the sun shine through again. I’m a friend of Pedro writing a book on intersemiosis… I just finished writing these lines about how artists create their own languages. My previous example was Magritte. … or the “environmental art” of emerging artist Sam Horowitz who takes the vocabulary of recycled material, such as cases and cardboard boxes, and gives it a new syntax. His “Writing” contains its own codes, much as the work of Gordon Mat-ta-Clark who re-conceptualized the spaces in which we live and work—houses, office buildings, factories—by deconstructing them in various ways, sometime by laboriously planning and cutting large openings in the walls of buildings, thus turning over our most familiar enclosures, sometimes just to let the sun shine through again.

]]> http://samhorowitzart.com/art/environments/convulse/comment-page-1#comment-30 Ron Tedwater Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:58:15 +0000 http://samhorowitzart.com/art/?p=139#comment-30 Really nice post,thank you Really nice post,thank you

]]> http://samhorowitzart.com/art/environments/side_up/comment-page-1#comment-3 MarkSpizer Mon, 03 May 2010 07:25:17 +0000 http://samhorowitzart.com/art/?p=401#comment-3 great post as usual! great post as usual!

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