Clay House (1972)

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People:

Gianni Pettena (archive creator)
Gianni Pettena (artist)

Title:

Clay House (1972)

Date:

circa 1972-2016

Level of archival description:
Project

Extent and medium:

19 digital files (65 MB)
26 photographic materials
4 drawings

Scope and content:
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)

Reference number:

AP207.S1.1972.PR02

Arrangement:
Material in this project series was kept in its original order when it was first processed upon its arrival at CCA.

Location:

Salt Lake City Utah United States

Language of material:

English
Italian

Related units of description:

This project, along with "Tumbleweeds Catcher" and "Red Line" are part of a series of three projects entitled "The Salt Lake Trilogy". The projects were undertaken between April 1971 and March 1972 while Pettena was teaching as a guest professor at the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City. For material related to these projects, see: AP207.S1.1972.PR03 Tumbleweeds Catcher (1972) and AP207.S1.1972.PR04 Red Line (1972).

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