Criticism

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

“an art work is neither a physical thing nor a viewer’s mental image of it but something in between, created in attentive space”

The Battle for Attention

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/06/the-battle-for-attention

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“works of art can sensitize us to the amount and kind of labor, of human time and effort, stored in everything we use and think we want”

SOME EXERCISES IN SLOW PERCEPTION

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

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“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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“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

“I WILL REFER TO THE KIND of art in which I am involved as conceptual art. In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. * When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that make... See more

“the problem was to base art making on something other than arrangements of forms according to taste.”

Some Notes on the Phenomenology of Making

https://www.artforum.com/print/197004/some-notes-on-the-phenomenology-of-making-34191

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“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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“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

“the making of them doesn’t appear to be anything special. There are no secrets or mysteries as to what the objects are; the puzzle is in confronting such simple but unusual objects and in trying to understand what about them seems so strange. This is the contrast in Hesse’s work that most interests me: the contrast between simultaneous obviousness... See more