Marc, I am just disappointed with the reaction of the art world in the 5
years after 9/11.
And it is not about "art" in general, but about more or less "famous
art", that made it into newspapers etc.
There is probably a lot of "good" street art, London etc, and I probably
did not search the web enough, but there has not been a "wave" of such
"good art", which one should expect after 9/11 and the U.S. etc reaction.
Besides Botero, who was, surprise, surprise, given his bad reputation in
"modern art" circles, not so bad, he had a clear message and knew how to
say it, I found only
http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs106/glib.jpg
impressiv. Maybe it is not so impressiv anymore, very simple, targetted
at some early rhetorics, that more or less nobody believes anymore, but
such simple statements are important.
Net art, maybe I was to harsh, maybe not "bad", but it could have been
much, much better IMHO.
Ok, "good art" says something important, "bad art" is boring.
H.
marc wrote:
Hi Heiko,
Isn't using a term such as 'bad art' a bit of a generalisation - a bit
20th century? I know that wars are back in fashion now, but surely
such words as these are just no longer needed to describe contemporary
art. Langauge has moved on now...
Perhaps, Armin may have a point.
If you are saying that there has only been "5 years of bad art after
9/11", then may be you have not been looking at much of the work that
has been made in that time. Or perhaps you are not interested in
contemporary creativity, for some personal reason.
If we are playing the binary game though - here's one to chew on:
-would a conservative prefer 'abstract art' or 'political art', which
one do you think that individual would go for?
Personally, I enjoy some abstract works - but I am also very
interested in net art and (new) media art. I find many of the
questions that have been proposed, coming out of such works to be
aesthetically imaginative and intellectually challenging. I have been
working with many people in this area, teaching it at Universities and
working with others (peers) at our studios in London. And to be
honest, many of the people that I have had the privelage to work with
not only posses a creative understanding that critically engages in
exploring beyond 'modernist' and canon-like values, but are also able
to shift and split paradigms apart, with the issues put forward in
their work that was unimaginable before, with content, context. not
forgetting social awareness., and the of course the technology used
for its crafting...
This surely cannot be as you say - 'brain.dead'. I think that you must
be talking about something very different like our governemnts...
all the best...
marc garrett.
p.s.
guess this song:
I've been patient, I've been good, tried to keep my hands on the table
It's gettin' hard this holdin' back, you know what I mean
I'm sure you'll understand my point of view, we know each other mentally
You gotta know that you're bringin' out the artist in me
CHORUS
Let's get critical, critical, I wanna get critical, let's get into
critical
Let me hear your network talk, your network talk, let me hear your
network talk...
Indeed, "5 years of bad art after 9/11" comes to mind.
It is incredible, that the ONLY convincing internationally known
political art against Abu Graib etc is by good old Botero, who is
believed to paint for society ladies. Maybe he was never unpolitical
with his fat officers etc.
Net.art seems to be brain.dead,
H.
Armin Medosch wrote:
100 years after futurism and 50 years after American abstract and
minimalism accusations against art mysticism and a-political
formalism which have been raised then are only ever more evident
now. abstract --> retreat into 'pure' form instrumentalized by neo-
conservative government for the construction of nationalist cultural
identity as export commodity.
resist!
Armin Medosch
On 25 Sep 06, at 14:08, Oliver Grau wrote:
THEAUSTRIANABSTRACTS
23TH SEP TO 15TH OCT 2006
ARTI ET AMICITIAE, ROKIN 112, 1012 LB AMSTERDAM
OPENING: 22TH SEP 2006, 7 P.M.
OPENING PERFORMANCE: NTSC
The exhibition presents 27 Austrian-based artists dealing with
abstraction in different styles and media. The show is divided
into three, interrelated sections: an exhibition hall featuring a
"classical" compilation of paintings, photographs and
installations; a cinema showing digital videos; and a lounge
hosting a variety of computer-based works.
Exhibition: Gregor Eldarb, Franz Gebetsberger, Margit Hartnagel,
Sabina Hörtner, Lotte Lyon, Günther Selichar, Esther Stocker,
Gerold Tagwerkerker
Videos: Tina Frank, Karoe Goldt, Michaela Grill, Dariusz Kowalski,
m.ash, Maia Gusberti, reMI, Billy Roisz, Michaela Schwentner, Nik
Thönen/Timo Novotny
Computerbased works: [n:ja], Gerhard Daurer, dextro, Andres
Ramirez Gaviria, Lia, Pfaffenbichler/Schreiber, tinhoko
http://www.theaustrianabstracts.net (full version will be online
sep 15th)
http://www.arti.nl
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