2009-08-15
post/163643445
quote 19:34:56
“ Ironies and politics pile up in Agnes Denes’s 1982 work Wheatfield - A Confrontation (below). Denes planted wheat on New York City real estate worth billions. Spot the twin towers in the dense urban fringe - and note the harvest was fed to New York police horses. Trying to recreate the work on a scrap of forgotten land in industrial east London, however, only underlines the monumental scale Denes worked with - and the large vision. ”
