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Alexandre David - Some Room
September 10, 2009

“I often try to create an architectural sense of space through the experience of a self-contained object, and sometimes I try to blur the boundary between public and intimate spaces or between a space one can only look at and a space that one can move around in.”

“I try to generate specific experiences that may subsequently affect, in a small way, how we use space in our everyday lives.”

from Artist’s Statement - Some Room, Alexandre David

“[Minimal Art] is a manifestation of man’s search for basic roots and meanings in a world that appears to have none… We are profoundly conscious of the need for a clearer presentation of all facets of our life as we find them today.”

Leepa, Allen. "Minimal Art and Primary Meanings." Minimal Art: a Critical Anthology. Ed. Gregory Battcock. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1968. 2008. Print.

“...such concepts as clarity of idea, precision of means, standardization of elements, and impersonality of statement are essential aspects of efforts to base art on a direct and primal kind of visual experience....”

Ibid., 201