Williamsburg Brooklyn was, in the early 1990's the largest and most dynamic art community in the world. Like the ante bellum south it is now "gone with the the wind. This is what this is about!
Enrico Pedrini, Italian theoretician and curator, who wrote a thesis on "Irreversibility and the Avante-garde" once created a show by placing books on physics on pedestals in an empty room. This was a show of art without the artist. "It is the inevitable end of the progress and overcoming represented by the avant-garde in art," he said, "... the artist is no longer in the picture.
Pages
21
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
Yuko Nii Foundation
Release
September 27, 2015
Massurealism and the Death of Art: Progress, Overcoming and the Irreversibility of the Avante-garde
Williamsburg Brooklyn was, in the early 1990's the largest and most dynamic art community in the world. Like the ante bellum south it is now "gone with the the wind. This is what this is about!
Enrico Pedrini, Italian theoretician and curator, who wrote a thesis on "Irreversibility and the Avante-garde" once created a show by placing books on physics on pedestals in an empty room. This was a show of art without the artist. "It is the inevitable end of the progress and overcoming represented by the avant-garde in art," he said, "... the artist is no longer in the picture.