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One of the highlights of Oscar Figueroa\u2019s exhibition Air Plane\u2014now installed in the Art Condos Loading Dock\u2014is this work titled Communicating.<\/p>\nOne of the highlights of Oscar Figueroa\u2019s exhibition Air Plane\u2014now installed in the Art Condos Loading Dock\u2014is this work titled Communicating.<\/p>\n
It seems simple enough. A desk lamp, fitted with a red bulb, is positioned on the floor, near the wall. The lamp
\nIs turned up so that the light will be projected sideways. When the lamp is turned on, the flare from the light\u2019s red bulb casts a red disc of light sideways onto the wall\u2014low down so that the round red flare seems, mysteriously, to rest on the floor.<\/p>\n
The piece succeeds, in large measure, because it does so much with so little\u2014i.e. it gives back to the viewer infinitely more than the sum of the work\u2019s actual parts. This, we think, is minimalism at its most refined and poetic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of the highlights of Oscar Figueroa\u2019s exhibition Air Plane\u2014now installed in the Art Condos Loading Dock\u2014is this work titled Communicating. It seems simple enough. A desk lamp, fitted with a red bulb, is positioned on the floor, near the wall. The lamp Is turned up so that the light will be projected sideways. When […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artwelove"],"yoast_head":"\n