2024-11-21T11:20:04-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/90788/art-review-moss-kipnis-and-the-box Orhan Ayyüce 2009-07-30T06:53:00-04:00 >2022-03-16T09:16:08-04:00 <p> A brief snapshot of last night's Gallery Talk event in SCI Arc.<br> 'Conversation Under the Box'<br><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2429/3770970849_163cec31e0_o.jpg"><br><br> CONVERSATION UNDER THE BOX<br><em>By Orhan Ayyuce</em><br><br> I almost didn't go if it wasn't for a business meeting I had near SCI Arc right before the much anticipated gallery <a href="http://www.sciarc.edu/exhibition.php?id=1336" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">installation</a> talk between Eric Owen Moss, architect and school's director and his friend and critic Jeffrey Kipnis about ; architecture related, grid related, art related, poetry related, related over the top and 'what's inside of me' personal installation of aluminum produced cube, precariously hanging from the ceiling above, bondaged with finite, centered circular flat bars, fighting a war against orthographic and infinite grid.<br><br> An integral part of the visual concept, the exhibition incorporated a boxing ring or some other theatrics influenced seating arrangement, demanding your focused attention to the work uber alles. If you were sitting in the gallery, you were either an actor or an audience, a part of the performance piece t...</p>