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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
“Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art. It makes art into an article for use, for arrangement into a mental scheme of categories.”
-Susan Sontag, “Against Interpretation”
“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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The Battle for Attention
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/06/the-battle-for-attention
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“the entire enterprise of art making provides the ground for finding the limits and possibilities of certain kinds of behavior and that this behavior of production itself is distinct and has become so expanded and visible that it has extended the entire profile of art. This extended profile is composed of a complex of interactions involving factors... 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
“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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Anti Form
https://www.artforum.com/print/196804/anti-form-36618
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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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SOME EXERCISES IN SLOW PERCEPTION
https://www.artforum.com/features/some-exercises-in-slow-perception-212529/
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“there is also something flat-out funny about Wilke’s sculptural work, an attitude shared with a number of works made by Hesse, Bourgeois, and others, although it is an aspect of their work that tends to get overlooked—too awkward, a bit embarrassing to an artworld for whom “funny” is often a dirty word”
Wilke - Acquavella Galleries - Hesse / Wilke
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Wilke - Acquavella Galleries - Hesse / Wilke
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“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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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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