ART–CON–ANA

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William Anastasi

Systems of Clarity

Chance as structure

ART–CON–ANA

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Chance as structure

William Anastasi

ART–CON–ANA

Chance as structure

Index Code:

ART–CON–ANA

Orgin:

New York, USA

Field Notes:

Surface records action • contingency becomes form

Defining Moment:

1960s—“Subway Drawings” formalized chance as an artistic engine

William Anastasi

(

b. 1933

)

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Anastasi built a world where drawing becomes chance — movement, friction, and repetition generating surface.

His works reveal randomness as structural method.

Structural Focus

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In William Anastasi’s work, this approach appears where chance structures composition.

Position

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In William Anastasi’s work, this approach appears where chance structures composition.

Form is governed by rigid rules, limits, and non-negotiable constraints.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Atmosphere accumulates through calibrated light, tone, and spatial pacing.

Gesture functions as structure through disciplined, repeatable action.

Space is structured through openings, intervals, and boundary conditions.

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Language, instruction, and proposition function as the work itself.

Reduction clarifies form through repetition, scale, and restraint.

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Structual Relations

The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.

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