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1987 03 17 Sculpture Prime Room Dan Olson bird eye view of floor southwest corner
1987 03 17 Sculpture Prime Room Dan Olson birds eyeview south facing floor and windows hanging sculpture and lines on floor
1987 03 17 Sculpture Prime Room Dan Olson detail of Prime Room reading material side of entrance
1987 03 17 Sculpture Prime Room Dan Olson detail view I shaped scuplture hanging midair
1987 03 17 Sculpture Prime Room Dan Olson install view facing southeast corner I shape sculpture and and lines
1987 03 17 Sculpture Prime Room Dan Olson installation shot inside of front window

Daniel Olson - Prime Room
March 17, 1987

An “incomplete list of precedents/inspirations”:
Mathematics - theory of prime numbers
Beckett prose
Yves Klein’s x Voids 1958 and after
Duchamp’s writings on prime words
The words themselves as “bottomless pits” (to quote Valery on Mallarme)
Numerous personal, veiled thoughts about the layers of interrelationships between these things and myself
The entire “stripping bare” tendencies of 20th century thought
Everything, which leads to everything else, if you are willing to work for it

“Minimal elements of drawing, painting, sculpture, text and architecture are combined to create a situation that is simultaneously simple and complex, specific and general, private and public, abstract and representational, self-contained and open ended. It is based on, and is also a test of, the human ability to create something, or everything, from almost nothing”.

from Press Release - Prime Room

1987 03 17 Sculpture Prime Room Dan Olson detail view I shaped scuplture hanging midair