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Richard Nonas

REMEMBERING
Jene Highstein
(1942 – 2013)

By Richard Nonas

It was an entire time and a place that shaped us then, and not specific ideas or theories. Everything seemed open in New York in the early ’70s; anything was possible. We tried everything. And did it without money.

Jene Highstein, “Two Horizontals,” 1974, seamless steel pipe. 112 Greene Street, New York. Two 16-inch diameter seamless steel pipes suspended from the walls and spanning the room at different heights, the lowest 6’4” high and the highest 8’ 8” high, each 36’ long. Panza di Biumo Collection. Photo (c) Gianfranco Gorgoni.
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