| Hyperart Thomassson Report Sheet |
| 超芸術探査本部 東京等千代田区神田神保町２－２０第２富士ビル３F美術校内 |
FORM HT001-RS00001B - ON FILE
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登録番号
Report Number |
GT0000150 |
受付年月日
Date Received |
2010-01-22 05:30:40 |
発見場所
Location |
Istanbul, Turkey |
発見年月日
Date Discovered |
12/29/2009 |
発見者氏名
Discoverer(s) |
Matthew Fargo |
物件の表題
Title of Discovery |
René Magritte |
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物件の状況（形質・その他）
Condition of Instance (notable traits, context, etc.) |
Please excuse the lousy pictures. I am a lousy photographer; I was using a lousy camera; I was on a moving boat, at dusk.
But this instance is just too important not to report. Perhaps somebody in Istanbul can go document it during daylight hours. It's located on the Asian side of the Bosphorous, somewhere between the Fatih Sultan Mehmet and Boğaziçi bridges.
As you can see, it's a waterfront home. A waterfront home without any doors or windows. And these doorless. windowless walls have been used as a canvas by some aspiring surrealist, who has painted the very house itself onto its walls, including the trees just behind it.
The effect is incredible, even if totally unintentional. The part with the trees appears to be almost translucent--as though you are looking straight through the walls. But the red house has the opposite effect--it refers back to the house that is being painted on, thus kicking you out of the canvas and back into the real world. It's astounding, and It's exactly how René Magritte would have painted his home, had he thought of this.
Now, you see less surreal versions of this kind of thing in my native New York: large sheets of tarpaulin pulled over buildings that are under construction, painted with images of the future, renovated buildings. The idea is that a building under construction is an eyesore, and must be covered up. Transition is embarrassing. The future is now.
But if that were the case in this instance, wouldn't you want to paint the future, renovated home on these walls? The brick red structure that the artist has depicted is just as lacking in doors and windows as the one that is painted over. And the trees--wherefore the trees? On the whole, this painting only draws MORE attention to the building; it forces you to speculate, in vain, what on earth it is doing there.
I, for one, can't quite figure it out.
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Maybe it is camouflage that has failed?
(2010-02-01 08:52:54)