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Transplantation I, Perspective and plan

Transplantation I, Perspective and plan

Raimund Abraham
American, born Austria. 1933–2010
1964
A pen-and-ink drawing paired with a photomontage collage in which Abraham visually 'transplants' a machine-like slice of architecture into an open landscape to investigate how built form can be relocated and reinterpreted.
A long, metallic row of pistons and structural members appears improbably cut out and set into a spare plain, the hard, repetitive machinery startling against the soft horizon and empty ground.
Working in the 1960s, Abraham used drawing and collage as speculative tools to question modernist ideas of technology and site, helping to make architectural representation a medium for conceptual exploration rather than only documentation.
Medium
.a: Pen and ink .b: Collage
Dimensions
.a: 5 5/8 x 7" (14.3 x 17.8 cm) .b: 4 1/2 x 7" (11.4 x 17.8 cm)
Classification
Credit
Philip Johnson Fund
Accession
281.1965.a-b
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