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Title
Blue Granite Shift
Creator
Gregoire, Mathieu (American conceptual artist, born 1953)
Contributor
InSITE94
Date Created and/or Issued
1994
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
inSite Archive: Selections
Rights Information
Unknown
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Description
Garden and Landscape
Sculpture and Installations
For inSITE94, Mathieu Gregoire created a permanent installation for the central courtyard of the California Center for the Arts, Escondido. Entitled "Blue Granite Shift/Transición del granite azul," the piece is made of granite quarried from the hills surrounding the cultural complex. Extending 500 feet throughout the courtyard, the work moves from rough granite boulders to increasingly more cut and polished stones, finally ending with completely square granite elements. Likewise, the landscaping follows a similar evolution from native plants and trees to more formal and decorative varieties. The work suggests development in the area as having been wrought from the natural environment. --inSITE94
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 05, Item 133)
[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
California Center for the Arts Museum (Escondido, Calif.)
Type
image
Format
Granite (rock); water; 500 feet long
Form/Genre
installations (visual works)
gardens
sculpture (visual work)
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Landscapes (environments)
Orchards
Landscape architecture
Abstraction
Installations (visual works)
Gardens
Sculpture (visual work)
Mexican-American border region
Escondido (Calif.)
InSITE94
Place
Mexican-American border region
Escondido (Calif.)

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