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Clay House (1972)
circa 1972-2016
Project
The project series documents "Clay House", an installation undertaken by Pettena and a group of his students from the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, in 1972. It consisted of covering an entire inhabited house with clay located in a middle-class neighbourhood of Salt Lake City. The installation "was another study on the “working” of material, or rather a statement on the re-naturalization of denatured places and materials [...]." It also transformed the house by changing its colour from the other houses in the area, "all devitalized by the anonymity as well as the uniformity of their coloring." [2]
The project series contains photographs of the residence before being covered in clay, a photograph of Pettena's team working at covering the house with clay, photographs of the finished installation, and a photograph of the model. The project series also contains drawings for the installation, and a drawing showing four stages of the installation.
Source:
[1] [2] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/nat-clay-house-1972-1/ (last accessed 11 November 2019)
Material in this project series was kept in its original order when it was first processed upon its arrival at CCA.
Salt Lake City Utah United States
English, Italian
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1 File
sheet (smallest): 30 x 42.5 cm sheet (largest): 44.5 x 32.5 cm
Gianni Pettena fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Gianni Pettena/
Gift of Gianni Pettena
207-001-011
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 File
sheet: 70.5 x 100 cm
Gianni Pettena fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Gianni Pettena/
Gift of Gianni Pettena
207-003-003
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 File
sheet: 21.5 x 29.5 cm
Gianni Pettena fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Gianni Pettena/
Gift of Gianni Pettena
207-005-023
Objects that have been catalogued:
Most common file formats: JPEG File Interchange Format, Microsoft Word for Windows, Audio/Video Interleaved Format
1 File
Gianni Pettena fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Gianni Pettena/
Gift of Gianni Pettena
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