Re: Gabriel by Agnes Martin

From: Fred Camper (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Mar 24 2009 - 15:20:49 PDT


malgosia askanas wrote:

> If she builds a house just for herself, no. But I think that if she
> builds a house and puts it on public display, as a house, then she is
> declaring herself a housebuilder - it doesn't matter whether "foremost"
> or not. And her house then gets experienced, evaluated and critiqued as
> a house, as if it was built by a housebuilder.

And I saw "Gabriel" at a place charging admission. It wasn't at a free
open screening; it wasn't shown to me by someone in her home. It was on
the market, just as a house is, but in this film, the plumbing was all
off -- the toilet flushed into the sink, so to speak. And the person who
posted trying to see it was perhaps going to spend money to see it too.

There's something wrong if I have to go through all this just to post a
negative opinion.

Fred Camper
Chicago

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