![]() ![]() Note: Desert X 2017 is permanently closed. For more information please visit: Īdditional generous support provided by 303 Gallery. All the corridors and rooms are designed. What it is: This mural that acknowledges the Coachella Valley as a. ![]() ![]() Overlooking Palm Springs, the house features carefully crafted views of its surroundings. The midcentury modern home built in the 1950s by one of America’s most popular entertainers of all time has been bouncing on and off the market for the past decade. As Mirage pulls the landscape in and reflects it back out, this classic one-story suburban house becomes a framing device, a perceptual echo-chamber endlessly bouncing between the dream of nature as pure uninhabited state and the pursuit of its conquest. Desert X installation view of Doug Aitken's Mirage, 2017. Bing Crosby’s house in Rancho Mirage, Calif. With every available surface clad in mirror it both absorbs and reflects the landscape around in such ways that the exterior will seemingly disappear just as the interior draws the viewer into a never-ending kaleidoscope of light and reflection. As Mirage pulls the landscape in and reflects it back out, this classic one-story suburban house becomes a framing device, a perceptual echo-chamber. The ranch-style structure suggests a latter-day architectural version of manifest destiny, a primary structure rendered by the artist without function service or texture. In the tradition of land-art as a reflection of the dreams and aspirations projected onto the America West, Mirage presents a continually changing encounter in which subject and object, inside and outside are in constant flux. ![]()
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