contemplating Sarah Thornton‘s arguments for not writing about the art market, I find argument number 8 especially interesting: 8. It implies that money is the most important thing about art. As an art-critic, my job is to ignore the money side of art in my search for meaning. But we all know the money issue is integrated…
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a situation of inaccessible space translated into writing
I am stumbling around with this unanswerable question: how can one translate a situation of inaccessible space into writing – Could this be a kind of answer? Huge wads of silence stuffed the air. He was staring around for the dog then realized they hadn’t had a dog for years. Clock in the kitchen said quarter…
White matter … (s) (cont.)
Yesterday I thought about explosive art, about making things new through destruction. Today I’m looking at things being tied down and together, on things being tied to no-thing, to space, white matter and dark space, like they are in the work of the Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota In the work “A Long Day” Chiharu Shiota has spun…
Eva Hesse & ‘the total absurdity of life’
Guardian critic Jonathan Jones has written an interesting piece called: Art criticism and the pleasure principle. His text made me think about art that I really love (beyond intellectualism…?) Today I will present you for one of my absolute favorite artists: Don’t ask what it means or what it refers to. Don’t ask what the…
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