«While by no means a formal group, the now - celebrated African American practitioners at the heart of this study are linked generationally and conceptually by a shared investment in
critical artistic strategies developed since the 1960s, and their nearly simultaneous turn toward slavery...,» Copeland writes.
Not exact matches
They represented several generations of Chicago - based artists who apply activist intentions, conceptual
strategies, and experimental
artistic approaches to complex social issues; they epitomize a larger «
critical mass» of peers who have sustained and invigorated this kind of
critical art practice in Chicago.
The catalog contains a foreword by Dean Anthony Vidler that places Slutzky's paintings in dialogue with his seminal essay, Transparency: Literal and Phenonmenal, (written with Colin Rowe in 1955); an interview with Slutzky by Emmanuel J. Petit that discusses the painter's
critical strategies of
artistic production; an essay by Robert C. Morgan that examines Slutzky's conceptual position in the art historical tradition of Leon Battista Alberti and Josef Albers; and an essay by Robert Slutzky with Joan Ockman on metaphor in his work.
What
strategies,
artistic,
critical or practical, can be used to dismantle perceptions which may cause harm to individual and collective identities?
Having seemingly recovered from the harsh
critical overtones after almost being eliminated from contemporary discourse, in which a retroactive and purely commercial tone took over, the ideas and
strategies of the «reductive» and «essential» have slowly found their way back into
artistic language and practice.
Much more intuitive than empirical, this materialization of a
critical process, in which Kovanda's work is integrated into the history of major Western
artistic strategies, is a long - awaited recognition of a significant artist whose work and career straddle the boundaries between intelligibility and disappearance.
The program will address the role of artists, curators and other art professionals in an increasingly borderless world, investigating the ways in which
artistic practices, curatorial
strategies and
critical commentary have been reconfigured by intensified patterns of global circulation.