Sebastien de Ganay's recent work will intrigue you, if it hasn't already. For one thing, in the last couple of years he has almost single-handedly freed minimalism from its doctrinal shackles with his sculpture installations1. The ultra-cool logic of Judd & company's endgame in the lofts of Soho has found new purpose in a gigantic crumbling 18th Century castle in Petronell, a small town in eastern Austria on the Slovak border, where de Ganay lives with his wife and children in an apartment comfortably stanched against the weather's corrosive effects.2 There among the vineyards, Roman ruins and windmill energy farms, minimalism is undergoing a one-man renaissance. And this is just a small part of the story.

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