Powerful Void: Inside the Art of Lee Bontecou
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12 min readMar 31, 2021
In many ways, her work prefigures the contemporary preoccupation with the anthropocene
When I was a teenager, I saw this piece at MoMA for the first time and it took my breath away. At the time, I was doing some welding and had this idea to stretch fabric inside planes created by a metal armature. When I saw that Lee Bontecou had already done it, I knew two things. First, I knew I…