EDWARD KRASINSKI

Intervention 27, 1975

Edward Krasinski is famous for his use of the blue line (in masking tape) from 1968 onwards. He used it horizontally and always 130 cm above floor level.  He used it to to simultaneously recognise both the illusory space created by drawing, and the actual space in which drawings are located. In doing so, he contradicts the view held by Robert Morris, also in the late 1960s, that illusionism has become so much the default spatial mode in art that actual space can only be acknowledged through the refusal to give any room to illusionism.  (see Robert Morris 'Continuous Project Altered Daily: The Writings of Robert Morris' MIT 1993). 

Artists have also used Krasinski's blue tape practice as itself a site or context - eg Chris Fortescue's  resettings