The Big Mirror (2008), by Jan Mancuska
imagery, installation, mirror, photography, production, space, work of artMonday, April 22nd, 2013
Art is a history of doing nothing and a long tail of useful action. It is always a fetishisation of decision and indecision – with each mark, structure and engagement.
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Of all the frames, envelopes, and limits-usually not perceived and certainly never questioned-which enclose and constitute the work of art (picture frame, niche, pedestal, palace, church, gallery, museum, art history, economics, power, etc.), there is one rarely even mentioned today that remains of primary importance: the artist’s studio.
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As the art world careens this way and that, and its many institutions, markets, and audiences adapt and adjust, supporting it all is the generative activity of studio practice. The studio is a space and a condition wherein creative play and progressive thinking yield propositions for reflecting on who we are—individually and collectively—and where we might go next.
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“Informal art” is open in that it proposes a wider range of interpretive possibilities, a configuration of stimuli whose substantial indeterminacy allows for a number of possible readings, a “constellation” of elements that lend themselves to all sorts of reciprocal relationships.
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