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Tumbleweeds Catcher (1972)
circa 1972-2017
Project
The project series documents "Tumbleweeds Catcher", an installation by Pettena and a group of his students from the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, in 1972. The installation consisted of a tower-scaffold built on a vacant lot near the city centre and covered with mesh so it could capture the tumbleweeds blown by the wind. Through this installation Pettena's intention was to "highlight the 'work of the land', the tumbleweeds moved by the wind and intercepted by the mesh of the tower, 'naturalize' it, contaminate it, thereby embodying the revenge of nature over urbanized space." [1] A second edition was later presented at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art in Salt Lake City in 2013.
The project series contains photographs of the installation in 1972 and 2013, and drawings and sketches of the tower.
Source:
[1] Marco Scotini, editor. Non-conscious architecture: Gianni Pettena, Sternberg Press, 2018, 235 pages. p. 162.
Material in this project series was kept in its original order when it was first processed upon its arrival at CCA.
Salt Lake City Utah United States
English, Italian
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sheet (smallest): 36.5 x 29.5 cm sheet (largest): 42.5 x 30 cm
Gianni Pettena fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Gianni Pettena/
Gift of Gianni Pettena
207-001-012
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 File
sheet (with mat): 70 x 50.5 cm
Gianni Pettena fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Gianni Pettena/
Gift of Gianni Pettena
207-003-004
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 File
Gianni Pettena fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Gianni Pettena/
Gift of Gianni Pettena
207-005-024
Objects that have been catalogued:
Most common file formats: JPEG File Interchange Format, Microsoft Word for Windows, Exchangeable Image File Format (Compressed), Tagged Image File Format
1 File
Gianni Pettena fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Gianni Pettena/
Gift of Gianni Pettena
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