(Whats so funny about) thirteen paintings by ed saavedra? at Fl!ght Gallery
Posted by ben on 21 Feb 2008 at 09:38 pm | Tagged as: upcoming events
Thirteen new paintings by Ed Saavedra at Fl!ght Gallery, opening March 8, 7-11 pm.
Posted by ben on 21 Feb 2008 at 09:38 pm | Tagged as: upcoming events
Thirteen new paintings by Ed Saavedra at Fl!ght Gallery, opening March 8, 7-11 pm.
Hey What’s going on next door on the very same night?
Light in Line(s)
Painting is embodied. That is, as has been pointed out by PL and David, its pull for the painter. For the viewers, collectors, etc. I’d go with Concrete Phone’s movie-ness–the perceptual phenomena of looking at a thoroughly painted painting. Tomma Abst, the 8 on the left side of the room. Milton Resnick, the big black and white one. Paintings that catch, hold and confound the eye: a body. They circumvent recognition or word play for visual ideas, such as the construction of form and space through mark or color. The logic is beyond perception, but that’s the conduit through which it appears.
My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.
I would prefer a normal-sized breast, or a small breast or whatever and that it be natural, than to understand that it was just some jelly in there
Edward_ said…
anyone who has studied Duchamp and the complex alchemical hermeneutics of the “Large Glass” knows that James Croak’s statement on Duchamp is inaccurate
please explain why
and typical of the middle brow sound-byte that passes for intellectual discussion in contemporary Western culture
without the insecure-sounding ad hominem flavor, that is…
5/17/2008 11:52:00 AM
LUCY said…
I bet you wish I was a puppet so you could stick your hand up my ass and make me do whatever you want
5/17/2008 12:24:00 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said…
“please explain why”
Certainly. Croak’s statement implies that there was no content ["insight into an invisible world that we ascribed to an object"] in what Duchamp was trying to do. This could not be further from the truth. In fact the opposite was true. The large glass has a complex allegorical meaning involving ideas as diverse as European alchemical mysticism and the work of the French revolutionary architect Jean Jacques Lequeu. Etant donnés is also a complex multilayered work which has nothing to do with a “a democracy of all objects” as Croak generalizes. It’s hard for me to think of a work in the Western cannon that more implies “insight into an invisible world.” But since most art history books just show us “Fountain” signed by R. Mutt as a precursor of Jeff Koons the really interesting [perhaps challenging and contradictory] stuff is dropped and the sound-byte artist is created. I like Duchamp, and feel sad to see him constantly referred to as the progenitor of the kind of soulless commodity-art that is currently overwhelming us.
“without the insecure-sounding ad hominem flavor, that is…”
Apologies if it comes off that way. Just how I feel about it.
5/17/2008 12:30:00 PM
Sioux City USA
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