16 Eight works of various kinds occupy this first room in the exhibition. They range from Juan Genovés’s painting Aproximación (Closing In, 1966) to Gordon Matta-Clark’s videos recording actions in buildings due to be demolished or abandoned, the spatial transformation of which becomes an inseparable part of the video work. Between these two extremes there are documentary photographs by Herbert List (the devastating setting of the city of Munich in 1945 and 1947) and Robert Frank, and Robert Smithson’s photo-collage King Kong Meets the Gem of Egypt (1972). Among them there is the central presence of Reiner Ruthenbeck’s heap of ash, Aschehaufen VIII, über Quader (Heap of Ash VIII on Block, 1970), keeping panoptic watch over this initial and, we might also say, initiatory space.
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