Exhibition
Joseph Kosuth - 'The Mind’s Image of Itself #3’ - Spruth Magers (London)
This is a site-specific project by internationally acclaimed Conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth entitled ' 'The Mind’s Image of Itself #3’ a play of architecture and the mind '. The work is part of a series which was first conceived for an exhibition at the Palazzo Bembo, presented at this year’s 54th Venice Biennale, followed by an artist project which will feature in Frieze Magazine’s 20th Anniversary Issue this September. 'The Mind’s Image of Itself' is both a reflection on the architecture of the gallery space and of a suggested architecture of the mind. The installation is composed of an off register, a 1:1 wallpapered line drawing facsimile of the gallery rooms themselves; an architectural plan of the exhibition space visible only due to its off-centre positioning. Kosuth re-frames a structure that literally replicates and shifts the existing morphology of the once Georgian and Victorian architecture of the London gallery. The mind’s ‘image of itself’ is a reflection within itself, an allegorical re-tracing of the defining elements that make up both the physical context of the exhibition itself (its walls, doors and windows) while simultaneously
presenting the various meanings that the space, as an architectural object and a social/culture interface in play, reflects.
These aspects are articulated by the insertion of a fragmented intellectual discourse made up of more than 150 meticulously selected quotes by diverse thinkers from a variety of sources put in play as wall texts throughout this double architectural setting. The artist pairs the image of an architectural grammar with that of a multitude of voices and associations constructing an interior contemplative space where readers, as visitors, enter and dwell in the architecture of a house of ideas. Read Review
