Through this collective process of exhibition installation, the mechanisms of human relationships and their role
in aesthetic judgement become apparent.
In the fight again relativism and subjectivity
in aesthetic judgements, I have been outlining how we might approach objective judgements of value.
Not exact matches
The democratization of
aesthetic judgement is reflected
in a 1994 project of the Russian - born conceptual artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid
in which they enlisted a poll service
in several countries to widely survey the public about that characteristics that would make the best painting and the worst painting.
Black's working process is intensely physical and this energy is conveyed through works that emphasise her free, experimental working method, combined with the editing, muting and reigning
in of careful
aesthetic judgement.
Cologne's art scene
in the late 1980's ignited a lasting creative debate, picking apart solid conventions of
aesthetic judgement and taste.
This preoccupation will form a key thread
in the exhibition at IMMA, which will present Black's extraordinary creative output through a series of new works tailored for the spaces here, revealing the artist's free, experimental way of working combined with a careful
aesthetic judgement.