Charlemagne Palestine
Drawing vs. Book

Enormous sheets of white paper were crumpled up and then somewhat flattened out and stacked to a depth of about two feet, filling the entire left-hand side of the 112 space. Similarly, wrinkled paper was mounted on the adjacent walls. The floor of the right-hand side was filled with blank artists’ sketchbooks, opened and placed in rows; the individual pages were crumpled, giving the whole the appearance of rolling arcs. The installation was an extension of the artist’s previous Drawing Works and Books of Continuity.

Excerpted from Brentano, R., & Savitt, M. (1981). 112 Workshop, 112 Greene Street: History, artists & artworks. New York: New York University Press.