On View Magazine Fall 2015 | Page 52

Dorit Margreiter,
10104 Angelo View Drive, 2004;
Video stills, 16 mm, loop, silent,
© Dorit Margreiter.

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have grown up eating their
breakfast cereal from a
Russel Wright spoon while
seated in an Eames molded
chair, these artists appropriate the language of the
modernist movement critically, using it to interrogate
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its relationship to history.
Their work challenges the
tenets of modernism headon. Some of them recast
iconic forms in materials
that inherently question the
precepts of the originals—
Terence Gower in papiermâché, and Conrad Bak-

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