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ALLAN MCCOLLUM.(exhibition of his work)
Artforum International, January, 2001 by Richard, Frances
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How does an art object encapsulate meaning? What is unique, and what is a copy? These questions have driven Allan McCollum's work since the '70s. His recent show--the result of a three-year project sponsored by the University of South Florida and undertaken with the help of a geologist and an electrical engineer from the school's International Lightning Research Facility at Camp Blanding-- continued such investigations.
The art object in this case was not a painting or sculpture but a fulgurite, a tubular specimen of petrified lightning. McCollum has appropriated the phenomenon of ...
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