World Grid- Square World

2008
Matt Bua. Ink, collage, paint, pencil on paper
"World Grid- Square World," Matt Bua

"World Grid- Square World," Matt Bua. for Off The Grid at the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY. (Detail)

Matt Bua’s work manifests as installation, drawing, film, video, and performance. His installations take form in large-scale fantastical spaces that redefine and re-imagine found objects and sustainable resources as functional elements in architecture. Bua’s drawings, as we see here in Off The Grid, are dense sketches comprised of intricate schematics, notations, and suppositions. About World Grid – Square World, Bua writes, "A drawing that skims the surface of the history of renewable energy usages and how they have been destroyed, forgotten, and scoffed at. Where did Don Quixote get the Idea that the windmills were vicious giants from anyway? How did the Rural Electricfication Act of 1936 go about following in Quixote’s footsteps to further rid the country of these ‘threats.’”