ARTIST VITO ACCONCI came to Middlebury College in 1983 and built his first permanent commission, “Way Station,” which was located near where Bicentennial Hall now stands. The piece was vandalized and destroyed in 1985, but it has been replicated in a new location behind the Mahaney Center for the Arts. Acconci will be on campus in early November to commemorate the work’s 30th anniversary and reconstruction.
Independent photo/Trent Campbell
MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury College Museum of Art last week inaugurated its newest addition to the campus’s distinguished collection of public art — a reinstallation of Vito Acconci’s provocative and seminal sculpture Way Station I (Study Chamber). The sculpture is located adjacent to the pond at the Mahaney Center for the Arts on Porter Field Road.
In conjunction with the exhibition, Acconci will give an illustrated talk, free and open to the public, in Dana Auditorium on Thursday, Nov. 7, at 7 p.m.
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