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Annie Cabigting is considered one of the few truly visionary female painters to emerge from Asia. Her beautifully rendered, photorealist canvases often employ meta-references within art history, interrogating how art is perceived and what happens when the viewer becomes the viewed. Cabigting's eye is drawn to the uncommon: the minute details, the overlooked or dismissed aspects to a work of art - such as the reverse of the Mona Lisa or the visual result of a destroyed Francis Bacon. Often her paintings portray paintings under scrutiny - an act of transference between the viewpoint of the immediate viewer of Cabigting's work, into that of the viewer within Cabigting's canvas.
Office Baroque 1977 (After Gordon Matta-Clark) (Lot 424) is one of Cabigting's most outstanding and progressive works to date. Taking the form of an inverse-teardrop shaped canvas, this radical composition explores and pays homage to conceptual artist and architect Gordon Matta-Clark who became famous for his works in abandoned buildings and warehouses. Office Baroque, an avant-garde site-specific project undertaken by Matta-Clark in 1977, involved physically cutting through a five-story Antwerp office building. This act was seen as that of artistic intervention in an unwanted, leftover urban space. Inspired by overlapping teacup rings left on a drawing, the carving was organized around two semi-circles that sliced through the floors, creating a rowboat shape at their intersection.
In this way, Cabigting's homage to Matta-Clark can be seen as an intervention of an intervention - overlapping their dual artistic practices, the way Matta-Clark intended with his overlapping teacup rings - by making permanent upon her canvas something which was intended to be temporal, abandoned, and specific to its location. By contrast, Cabigting's canvas as a movable object is not site specific. It takes the scene of Office Baroque from one unfixed location to another; inverting Matta-Clark's intent and suffusing it with the reflexive introspection of Cabigting's methodology.
Office Baroque 1977 (After Gordon Matta-Clark) (Lot 424) is one of Cabigting's most outstanding and progressive works to date. Taking the form of an inverse-teardrop shaped canvas, this radical composition explores and pays homage to conceptual artist and architect Gordon Matta-Clark who became famous for his works in abandoned buildings and warehouses. Office Baroque, an avant-garde site-specific project undertaken by Matta-Clark in 1977, involved physically cutting through a five-story Antwerp office building. This act was seen as that of artistic intervention in an unwanted, leftover urban space. Inspired by overlapping teacup rings left on a drawing, the carving was organized around two semi-circles that sliced through the floors, creating a rowboat shape at their intersection.
In this way, Cabigting's homage to Matta-Clark can be seen as an intervention of an intervention - overlapping their dual artistic practices, the way Matta-Clark intended with his overlapping teacup rings - by making permanent upon her canvas something which was intended to be temporal, abandoned, and specific to its location. By contrast, Cabigting's canvas as a movable object is not site specific. It takes the scene of Office Baroque from one unfixed location to another; inverting Matta-Clark's intent and suffusing it with the reflexive introspection of Cabigting's methodology.