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Big Words (Not Mine) – Transcend the poverty of partial vision (floor version), 2021
(detail) 100% New Zealand wool rug, aluminium composite mirrored panels, wooden stools
carpet 500 x 1000 cm; mirrored panels 1220 cm x 124 cm
Installation view, Anna Schwartz Gallery
Photo: Christian Capurro
In her 1977 book Passages of Modern Sculpture, Rosalind Krauss discusses Umberto Boccioni’s Development of a Bottle in Space, 1913, a sculpture that reveals itself to represent a bottle, dish, and glass only after the viewer has moved around it, observing the work from several vantage points. Big Words (Not Mine) – Transcend the poverty of partial vision (floor version), 2021 — the title of the large installation anchoring Rose Nolan’s exhibition “Parlour Games” — openly quotes from Krauss’s text. In doing so, the Australian artist plays into the tension between the partial and complete image, as conceptualized by Krauss in her analysis of Boccioni’s sculpture…