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Absalon:
In the early 90’s, Eshel Meir designed six residential modules all
measuring between 5 and 9 square
meters. Each “cell” (Prototype housing) is different in appearance but
contains the same basic elements,
vital minimum needed for a single
person: a kitchenette, a work area a table and chair for writing, reading and eating - a wardrobe closet
that also serves as a bed, a shelf, a
shower and a toilet. Before his death
(1993), he wanted to spread its cells
in six major cities (Tel Aviv, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Paris, Zurich and an
unspecified place) and inhabit them.
The domesticity implied there was
not sedentary but alternative and
mobile. This project has never been
finished.
Anti-domestic:
De Kooning as Pollock have eliminated the domestic context. For
them, the work was contained exclusively by the domain of the studio
and was the product of an existential creative process divorced from
a messy quotidian. In 1979 Barbara
Rose wrote in reffering to the well
know photographs of Pollock taken
by Hans Namuth:
“ The separation of the
atelier from domestics
quarter sis typical of
the New York school ”