«I think most people are familiar with the paintings, and even the sculptures, and we really wanted the chance to let a broader audience gain access to his photographic work, which is of course the basis of so
much of his artistic production.»
His unique style of painting was influential in the international revival of large - scale, figurative painting that characterized
much of the artistic production of this decade.
Not exact matches
So
much writing about contemporary art today is quick to identify the successes
of the age, to establish a new canon
of artistic production, but what would happen if ambivalence became a productive force, if art were no longer judged according to a vague and malleable scale
of quality?
Much of my
artistic practice has involved ephemeral drawing installations and the
production of graphic novels.
Robinson, noted perhaps as
much for his criticism as for his art making, gained notice in 2014 for his Artspace article «Flipping and the Rise
of Zombie Formalism,» which coined a widely adopted catchphrase that describes a current trend in
artistic production that «brings back to life the discarded aesthetics
of Clement Greenberg.»
Rush has said that
much of what he is interested in is «the idea
of failure and how it might constitute success, and
much of what I do could be characterised as the management
of actual or potential disasters -LSB-...]» Through these forms the artist hopes to address the problematics
of artistic territory and truth, and the boundaries between the art object, its site
of production and eventual arena
of display.
Like
much of Stark's work, the story
of these virtual encounters self - reflexively addresses the conditions
of creative self - doubt, sources
of insight and inspiration within the context
of the everyday and the problem
of production through the often - difficult process
of artistic labour.
The recent anti-cuts campaigns and protests that I have been involved in, have done
much to strengthen my interest and a sense
of urgency in interrogating the relationship
of art and activism and the place
of artistic production in the current neoliberalisation
of cultural spaces and art education.
Long overlooked as a centre for
artistic production, London was seen as not having any sort
of artistic predilection, and if any,
much lower than that
of heart
of artistic innovation, Paris.
But such rationalizations can't justify the historical amnesia
of a world - class museum dedicated to recording and delineating current canons
of significant
artistic production and taste no matter how
much the museum exhibition and collection depends on the endowments
of collector trustees who arguably benefit from rearrangement in the historical record.
While
much of the work in the exhibition utilizes Ebony and Jet imagery and text as source material, for some, the concept
of these iconic publications and their institutional histories provides the starting point for
artistic production.