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90 |Art Unlimited<br />
ROBERT MORRIS<br />
Title | Untitled (Scatter Piece), 1968/69<br />
Media |Felt, steel, lead, copper, zinc, aluminum, brass; indeterminate dimensions<br />
Artist |Robert Morris, *1931, Kansas City, MO, United States<br />
Lives and works inNew York, NY, United States<br />
Gallery |Sprüth Magers<br />
Sprüth Magers<br />
DE -10178 Berlin |Oranienburger Strasse 18<br />
Phone +49 3028884030|Fax +49 3028884052<br />
info@spruethmagers.com |www.spruethmagers.com<br />
Directors |Monika Sprüth, Philomene Magers, Franziska von Hasselbach, Iris Scheffler,<br />
Andreas Gegner, Andrew Silewicz, Patricia Pratas<br />
In collaboration with Leo Castelli Gallery,New York, NY<br />
Artwork Description |Untitled (Scatter Piece) was created on the occasion of Robert Morris’s exhibition<br />
at the Leo Castelli Gallery inMarch of 1969. The work was exhibited together<br />
with three other seminal works, Continuous Project Altered Daily, Untitled (Threadwaste),<br />
and Untitled (Lead and Felt). While being quite different from one another,<br />
these four works developed according to the idea of ‘indeterminance,’ that<br />
is, the artist did not employ an underlining scheme toindicate where and how<br />
each of the individual elements of each work should occupy the space.<br />
Untitled (Scatter Piece) was subsequently exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary<br />
Art in Philadelphia and was accidentally disposed of shortly after. Morris<br />
refabricated the work’s 200 distinct elements in 2010 on the basis of the nine<br />
original drawings that contain the specifications for each element. Half ofthese<br />
units are made from zinc, copper, brass, steel, aluminum, and lead. The others<br />
are made of felt and cut corresponding to the shape and size of its counterpart<br />
in metal. These 200 elements are then ‘scattered’ on the floor in aseemingly<br />
random fashion.<br />
In the words of Jeffrey Weiss, ‘The sets are generated according to chance<br />
calculations originally determined by coin toss plus numbers randomly selected<br />
from the New York City telephone directory (although the system is inconsistently<br />
applied); these govern the length, width, thickness, and number of bends<br />
(0, 1,or2)for each unit.’<br />
Untitled (Scatter Piece), 1968/69<br />
Installation views, Leo Castelli<br />
Gallery, New York, 1969
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