Insley builds a world where architecture becomes a total conceptual system, unfolding through drawings, models, and texts as a single speculative structure.
Insley builds a world where architecture becomes a total conceptual system, unfolding through drawings, models, and texts as a single speculative structure.
1. Will Insley: The Opaque Civilization, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; photo by George McCausland.
2–3. Will Insley, Ceremonial Space, 1971; photos: courtesy The Museum of Modern Art.
4. Will Insley, /Building/ No. 17, Passage Space Spiral – Model, 1970 (photomontage illustrated); acrylic and pencil on Masonite and wood, 96½ × 96½ × 4"; collection of the artist; courtesy Max Protetch Gallery, New York.
5. Will Insley, Ceremonial Space, 1971; book reproduction; courtesy The Museum of Modern Art.
6–7. Will Insley, Ceremonial Space, 1971; photos: courtesy The Museum of Modern Art.
8. /Building/ No. 6, Channel Space Spiral – View, 1968/73; photomontage, 48 × 48"; lent by the artist; courtesy Max Protetch Gallery, New York. /Building/ No. 33, Passage Space Mountain, Plan Oblique, 1972–83/83; ink on ragboard, 40 × 40"; lent by the artist; courtesy Max Protetch Gallery, New York.
9. /Building/ No. 33, Passage Space Mountain, Plan Oblique, 1972–83/83; ink on ragboard, 40 × 40"; lent by the artist; courtesy Max Protetch Gallery, New York.
10. Will Insley, foreground Large Grey Floor Drawing No. HD 69.5, 1969; background Wall Fragment Nos. 75.56, 75.57, 75.58, 1975; installation view, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1976.
11. Wall Fragment No. 75.57, 1975; latex enamel on Masonite and wood, 80 × 80 × 2"; private collection; Collection of Svetlana Zueva.
12. Will Insley, foreground Wall Fragment No. 66.2, 1966; middleground Large Grey Floor Drawing No. HD 69.5, 1966; background Wall Fragment No. 75.60, 1975; installation view, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1976.
13. Will Insley, Wall Fragment 66.4, 1966–1967; Paula Cooper Gallery.
14–15. Will Insley, Ceremonial Space, 1971; photos: courtesy The Museum of Modern Art.
16. Will Insley: Visions of a Future Civilization, installation view; Westwood Gallery NYC, New York, 2023; photo: Westwood Gallery NYC.
17. Will Insley, Floor Structure No. 1, 1966; installation view, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio, 1967.
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