Craig Kauffman
American, 1932–2010
Le Mur s'en va (The wall goes away)
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Craig Kauffman
American, 1932–20101969
Le Mur s'en va (The wall goes away)
Craig Kauffman American, 1932–2010 →sculpturemodern and contemporary art
Date
1969
Medium
Synthetic polymer on acrylic plastic
Dimensions
185.4 × 120 × 22.9 cm (73 × 47 1/4 × 9 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Twentieth-Century Purchase Fund
Craig Kauffman began exhibiting increasingly ex-perimental paintings in Los Angeles in the 1950s, evidencing a newly cool, clean-edged sensibility that would soon be called the L.A. Look. During the 1960s, Kauffman turned to acrylic plastic as the primary supporting surface for his work. Compared to a traditional, stretched canvas support, in Le Mur s’en va I the plastic support is translucent, curving over on itself like a sheet of paper, and suspended away from the wall (as well as quite close to the floor). Indeed, the work’s French title indicates the wall “leaving” or “departing.” This candy-colored painting serves as its own kind of spatial partition, simultaneously three-dimensional and ethereal.
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