yustas k. gottlieb
summer-diary-stelly'10-jaisini-series-homage-to-invisible-paintings
The Internet never forget – Fist invisible art documented on Internet
This art has moved from counterculture to collector culture, it has started
to become more consumable. Wall drawings by Sol LeWitt, a founding father of conceptualism, were once about reducing visual art to the raw ideas that
shape it. Watching LeWitt’s raw ideas become high-end collectibles may be
what has led some younger artists to seek a more ironclad evanescence. Tino
Sehgal, who was born in London in 1976 and is now based in Berlin, simply
makes strange things happen in the world, without any records or photos
permitted. A collector who “buys” a Sehgal—they now run around $100,000,
a pittance in Art Basel terms—doesn’t even get a certificate to prove it:
the transaction is conducted in cash, before witnesses, without paperwork
to soil its purity.That was good enough for collectors who “own” a Sehgal
that consists of a museum guard slowly removing every shred of his clothes.
(There being no guards in the Gensollens’ home, so far the piece has come
alive only when they’ve “lent” it to museums.) Her husband chimes in:
“When the work is immaterial, we’re just its temporary holders. Accumulating fancy goods is absurd. We buy works to talk about them, and to stretch people’s notions of what art is…But some people want the opposite: a reassuring object with a big name.”
Art Basel Aaron and Barbara Levine, veteran collectors from Washington,
D.C., were looking for rarefied work that was maybe more important than
the showstoppers. And, as it happens, barely even there.
Other artists title their whole art show not just a work – The Invisible
Show when the reviewer writes how a work is indeed “too visible” (hidden
sort of Christo like wrapping of objects.)
Hayward gallery in London received a lot of publicity and a lot of big
time “visibility” for the Invisible show in 2012.
Projects called invisible generation and info explains that the audience
does not necessarily expect to find artwork.
Attempts to write Brief History of Invisible art.
One artist is covering Europe in Invisible Graffiti (he gets more attention now
than the billion of others artists who are covering Europe in visible graffiti).
SOCIAL USE of the word invisible as it gained wide popularity: describing
social problems use word invisible in context: Older seems to equal invisible.
New terms in various uses Chronic Social Invisibility.
Architectural concept – infinity2Tower Infinity South Korea’s invisible
skyscraper (the idea gets public visibility and attention with comments
such as:
Very idea of it just SCREAMS “Flight Hazard”.
The South Korean government has granted approval to begin construction
on what will be the world’s first “invisible” tower. Called the Infinity
Tower, it will be equipped with an LED facade system and optical cameras to give it a reflective skine” and a striking translucent appearance.
A simple art project by an ordinary art student has been making quite a
stir worldwide, with images of her cleverly painted ‘invisible car‘ appearing in publications around the world.
(Must be quite entertaining, with such potential for “the hazard of driving and texting in the invisible car” comments)
Artists with inclinations to philosophy such as Yves Klein take photo of a
cabinet and title it: “Zone of Immaterial Pictorial sensibility” in Duchampian fashion of giving names to silly items and perform this “artistic transformation.” Still the picture is just a photo of an empty bookcase or whatever…
summer-diary-stelly'10-jaisini-series-homage-to-invisible-paintings
The Internet never forget – Fist invisible art documented on Internet
This art has moved from counterculture to collector culture, it has started
to become more consumable. Wall drawings by Sol LeWitt, a founding father of conceptualism, were once about reducing visual art to the raw ideas that
shape it. Watching LeWitt’s raw ideas become high-end collectibles may be
what has led some younger artists to seek a more ironclad evanescence. Tino
Sehgal, who was born in London in 1976 and is now based in Berlin, simply
makes strange things happen in the world, without any records or photos
permitted. A collector who “buys” a Sehgal—they now run around $100,000,
a pittance in Art Basel terms—doesn’t even get a certificate to prove it:
the transaction is conducted in cash, before witnesses, without paperwork
to soil its purity.That was good enough for collectors who “own” a Sehgal
that consists of a museum guard slowly removing every shred of his clothes.
(There being no guards in the Gensollens’ home, so far the piece has come
alive only when they’ve “lent” it to museums.) Her husband chimes in:
“When the work is immaterial, we’re just its temporary holders. Accumulating fancy goods is absurd. We buy works to talk about them, and to stretch people’s notions of what art is…But some people want the opposite: a reassuring object with a big name.”
Art Basel Aaron and Barbara Levine, veteran collectors from Washington,
D.C., were looking for rarefied work that was maybe more important than
the showstoppers. And, as it happens, barely even there.
Other artists title their whole art show not just a work – The Invisible
Show when the reviewer writes how a work is indeed “too visible” (hidden
sort of Christo like wrapping of objects.)
Hayward gallery in London received a lot of publicity and a lot of big
time “visibility” for the Invisible show in 2012.
Projects called invisible generation and info explains that the audience
does not necessarily expect to find artwork.
Attempts to write Brief History of Invisible art.
One artist is covering Europe in Invisible Graffiti (he gets more attention now
than the billion of others artists who are covering Europe in visible graffiti).
SOCIAL USE of the word invisible as it gained wide popularity: describing
social problems use word invisible in context: Older seems to equal invisible.
New terms in various uses Chronic Social Invisibility.
Architectural concept – infinity2Tower Infinity South Korea’s invisible
skyscraper (the idea gets public visibility and attention with comments
such as:
Very idea of it just SCREAMS “Flight Hazard”.
The South Korean government has granted approval to begin construction
on what will be the world’s first “invisible” tower. Called the Infinity
Tower, it will be equipped with an LED facade system and optical cameras to give it a reflective skine” and a striking translucent appearance.
A simple art project by an ordinary art student has been making quite a
stir worldwide, with images of her cleverly painted ‘invisible car‘ appearing in publications around the world.
(Must be quite entertaining, with such potential for “the hazard of driving and texting in the invisible car” comments)
Artists with inclinations to philosophy such as Yves Klein take photo of a
cabinet and title it: “Zone of Immaterial Pictorial sensibility” in Duchampian fashion of giving names to silly items and perform this “artistic transformation.” Still the picture is just a photo of an empty bookcase or whatever…