you have been here sometime

when blocks become us.
aka
limited internal space and unlimited external space.
aka
the artist has left the continent for good.

"A painting is an object which has an emphatic frontal surface. On such a surface, I paint a black band which does not recede, a color band which does not obtrude, a white square or rectangle which does not move back or forth, to or fro, or up or down; there is also a painted white exterior frame band which is edged round the edge to the black. Every part is painted and contiguous to its neighbor; no part is above or below any other part.
There is no hierarchy. There is no ambiguity. There is no illusion.
There is no space or interval (time).



- Jo Baer (above)




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Immediately following her midcareer retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York in 1975, Jo Baer relocated to Ireland. Her self-imposed exile coincided with the moment of her greatest critical recognition. For her, the search for a more substantive art required establishing a keen distance not only from the values, ethos, and ideologies that had dominated the New York art world in the 1960s but also from its wider sociopolitical matrix.

She has resolutely maintained this distance, both literally and figuratively, in succeeding years.


via here....

Through a string of events yesterday, I was directed to this entry on Dan Graham.... His work left a huge impact on my last year when it was shown here in Los Angeles at MOCA. Luckily for us here in Los Angeles, Regen Projects is about to open their new show, of Dan Graham's works on October 30th. His work surrounds ideas of architecture, space, memory, scale, mirrors, and interior architecture. In his entry, it states:

"Minimalist art stripped art down to only its fundamental and bare essentials. Rarely were pictorial or illustrative imagery were seen in minimalist works. Minimalism focused on the experience the artwork created for the viewer. The artist purposefully disconnected himself from the artwork. Even in the face of a chaotic world, minimalism was a calm, cool, and stable art form. This minimalist aesthetic was seen not only in visual art but, throughout the art world in literature, music, architecture, and fashion."

"The soul of sculpture is in the center of space and every piece of sculpture is a fragment that recomposes the center. Sculpture is the fullness which opposes the emptiness inside and outside the environment. The full form opposes the emptiness of a room, it is interpreted in a way opposite to that in which one interprets the walls which make up the architectural box. Thus sculpture defines by compressing itself in a silent expansion into both limited internal space and unlimited external space. When the volume of a work of art can be called sculpture, then it is soul. Today it clearly and surely is, because it has been recomposed and resuscitated. "


Michelangelo Pistoletto,
go here...

when blocks become us.
aka
limited internal space and unlimited external space.
aka
the artist has left the continent for good.



1. Jo Baer
2. Talisman London, vintage mirrored cabinet
3. Michelangelo Pistoletto,
4. Rachel Whiteread
5. ROLU Studio







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