This past fall a photographer named Stan Douglas had an exhibit at the Art
Gallery of Windsor entitled "Le Detroit". It was basically a retrospective
of famous and not-so-famous ruins and abandoned buildings in Detroit.
The photographs were accompanied by a short black and white film taken in
the old train station, with a soundtrack done by Carl Craig...definitely
made me a bit misty-eyed.
Interestingly, it also coincided with a small exhibit of artwork by Matthew
Hawtin - very simple pieces of single colours and symmetrical lines, but the
square canvases were warped into odd shapes. Like alot of the music Matthew
(and sometimes his brother) plays, simple yet somehow just bit off...in a
good way, of course.
Did anyone else in the Windsor/Detroit area see these?
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