Contemporary Art Installation to me is like a mental block. It doesn’t have any longevity, but once it’s there – it’s immoveable. I am referring to the physical confusion.
The East London guidance is to be ‘cutting edge’. Momentary aversion - what if they’re wrong and this era will be depicted as the very worse in Art history. Could the rubbish bin be binned?
Absurd or enigmatic. I am not on the fence, I am in a sand pit with confusion filled up to my eyeballs. In addition I feel like I’ve been on a mental block for four months and no one has made more sense than Francis Bacon.
This is one to definitely be continued.
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| Michael Landy's Art bin - High end installation |
I may be contradicting myself a lot when it comes to conceptual art, I do understand the lack of aesthetic merit and the reason for this pursuit however in some ways I feel that concept art is an institution in itself. I knew at the time of the writing this post that painting is somewhat dated and kinda boring, particularly reading Berger’s Ways Of Seeing, oil painting in particular is dictatorial, historically bourgeois and is limited as a representation. I think the common behaviour of following trends is just a historical repetition: the following of renaissance painting, modernism, abstract expression, pop art, conceptual art – we are evolving in a tradition of being dictated, to conform to current movements. At current could it be true to say there is a present mode of conformity to be cutting edge and ahead of the rest. I’m just exploring genuinity and the constant battle between doing what you want to do and what you feel you should do.
ReplyDeleteI went completely off point, back to the contradiction part... conceptual art has no aesthetic advantage. But that is cool. The problem is that it’s very niche and most people won’t get it on face value. But to the industry that’s good, there you create a market for a high end product, a means of hierarchy and means of distinction from the rest. Does Frieze come to mind?? Funny thing is East End Art specialises in cutting edge, is it a revolt or just a competition that ultimately lends itselfs as a co-operative??
Again... this is to be continued