Museum
Rakosi, Carl
THE de STIJL ROOM
in a roped-off alcove
a wooden chair
hand-made
easy to take apart
and make a table
or a bookcase
the historic
RED-BLUE CHAIR
a plaque reads:
TO BE OBJECTIVE
objective
as a machine
a chair
for the masses
for the new epoch
after the Cubists . . .
behind the chair
an immense Mondrian
fundamental
black lines
on a white ground/planes
at right angles
in precise
horizontal/vertical
co-ordinates . . .
rectangles in black
and white . . .
the eye
of the abstractionist
the purist
claiming
the unobservable
a high-wire act
in the annals
of presumption
of ideas
of time:
the avant-garde
conceives a chair
in which to situate
one’s self
in the universe
Ah, that’ll be the day!
a universal man
evolving . . .
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