art

“there is no considering the labor stored in things without thinking about the social relations that brought about their production”

SOME EXERCISES IN SLOW PERCEPTION

https://www.artforum.com/features/some-exercises-in-slow-perception-212529/

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“I do think there is a state of quality that is necessary, but it is not based on correctness. It has to do with the quality of the piece itself and nothing to do with neatness or edges. It’s not the artisan quality of the work, but the integrity of the piece . . . I’m not conscious of materials as a beautiful essence . . . For me the great involve... See more

“In object-type art process is not visible. Materials often are. When they are, their reasonableness is usually apparent.”

Anti Form

https://www.artforum.com/print/196804/anti-form-36618

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When art, which was the common language of social inaction, becomes independent art in the modern sense, emerging from its original religious universe and becoming individual production of separate works, it too experiences the movement that dominates the history of the entirety of separate culture. The affirmation of its independence is the beginn... See more

“they exemplify a kind of ethical resignation. Their use of very limited, repeated operations may be taken to express a suspicion of the meaning of any activity that cannot be undertaken with the relaxed concentration they embody. Such works discover a freedom in the unforeseeable effects of repetitive, deliberate activity, although they seem also ... See more