Dan Havel
Trespass 4416

Trespass 4416
Trespass 4416
Trespass 4416
ArtistAmerican, born 1959
ArtistAmerican, born 1962
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Trespass 4416
Date2007
Made inHouston, Texas, United States
MediumWood and found materials
Dimensions92 × 51 × 51 in. (233.7 × 129.5 × 129.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Chris Urbanczyk, with matching funds provided by Chevron; George and Mary Hawkins; Jane Millett Jackson; Marc and Kathleen Béïque; Leslie and Jack S. Blanton, Jr.; Karol Kreymer and Robert Card, M.D.; Lester Marks; Russell and Diana Hawkins; Drs. Jeffrey and Linda Jackson; Karen, Gene, and Katherine Oshman; Dan Tidwell and Jamie Mize; an anonymous donor in honor of Scott and Judy Nyquist; and friends of the artists
Object number2010.18.A-.F
Not on view

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Houston artists Dan Havel and Dean Ruck have collaborated on a number of site-specific interventions in the domestic architecture of Houston. However, these projects have been ephemeral: preserved only in drawings, models, and photographs. Trespass is the first monumental work by Havel Ruck Projects that is not short-lived.


Created out of materials scavenged at a building site in Houston’s historic Magnolia Grove district, Trespass is constructed from the fragments of a 19th-century wooden bungalow, the kind of structure once typical of the district. At a glance, the sculpture is a seeming whirlwind of flotsam and jetsam. Closer examination, however, reveals the careful structure that holds together this maelstrom of slats. Trespass can be compared to the “anarchitecture” projects of Gordon Matta-Clark. Like Matta-Clark, Havel and Ruck are interested in the social dimension of architecture, and as the title suggests, Trespass raises questions regarding property and community. Should the artists be considered trespassers for scavenging the materials from a building site? Or are the developers who are transforming a neighborhood the trespassers?


ProvenanceThe artist; [Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston]; purchased by MFAH, 2010.
Exhibition History"Learning by Doing: 25 Years of the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Part II)," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 15, 2008–January 11, 2009.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Gang tags in ink at 3/4 up: "E ... IDTS / 2007"

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