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Category: Art Writing
Magical Thinking
There is something acutely self-justifying in the rhetoric that supports major exhibitions, a kind of magical thinking that claims causality between the artwork and the reaction of the viewer which, if you’re not on-side with what the work is trying to do, seems more like evidence of abject failure than of unqualified success.
A Rum Go
There is something of this will to greatness underlying TV Moore’s Rum Jungle at Campbelltown Arts Centre.
Your Mind Is Exactly That Line
“In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important part of the work.”
Constructed Situations
That the kids doing the dance at the press preview had a little trouble pronouncing the word “contemporary” – instead saying con-tem-pree – is the least of the work’s problems.
Disrupting the System
Who can say whether these faces hanging from the wall accurately reproduce the faces of those people who were innocently having a cigarette or chewing gum?
Another Future: Hayden Fowler’s Alternative Nature
Kids born in the 1960s and 1970s always knew the end was nigh. We were the bomb generation. Mushroom clouds … More
Sculpture By The Sea 2013
As an art event, SBTS is reliably awful and its problems are always the same.
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