Shusaku Arakawa - The Mechanism of Meaning

The Mechanism of Meaning

Beginning in 1963, he collaborated with fellow artist and architect Madeline Gins on the research project The Mechanism of Meaning which was then completed by 1973. This research project and the architectural projects that stem from it, both built and unbuilt ones, formed the basis of the 1997 Arakawa + Gins: Reversible Destiny exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum SoHo.

The panels appear as a constellation of views concerning the nature of meaning that made be characterized in broad stroke as "holistic" or as entailments of a holistic view concerning meaning. To date, two editions of the Mechanism of Meaning have been made and many of the panels incorporate collaged elements