A review of Art Review: A year's subscription.
The gift of art thirsty knowledge and happenings in the move-makers of the world.
December-February contained plenty of Ryan Trecartin focussed opinion. I'd seen his stuff four years before and had already made up my mind then. I liked it. Now it seems the focus is on whether he's 'deserving' of praise, probably because he's gaining an income whilst consequently and irrespective of their opinion, charges his popularity and fame (in hollywood art all press is good press). But I always felt he offered what the 'art world' (or global art/globalised art world as this is more often called, wrongly, for we all know it is derived from anglophone capital art)what was I saying? Oh yes he offers them what they crave, which is a flirtation with the new powers of market control and creative exploits i.e youtube/social media/reality tv among that philistine public whilst simultaneously seeming to critique or complicate it through artistic intentions, although most of which is probably already obvious to us.
And so we also had a few consistent-albeit-safe with a moralising tone thought bites from JJ Charlesworth.
JJ chralesworth the end of experience, the only way outside a post-antropecentic attitude is a abstract athropecentic. What publications like mute were discussing a couple of years prior, but in all earnest. I never dug it then and I still don't now. speculative realsim has yet to ever be anything but one of those philosophical enquiries whose gas of profundity clears away the more you peer into it, to reveal a room of the 'bleedin obvious'.
The gift of art thirsty knowledge and happenings in the move-makers of the world.
December-February contained plenty of Ryan Trecartin focussed opinion. I'd seen his stuff four years before and had already made up my mind then. I liked it. Now it seems the focus is on whether he's 'deserving' of praise, probably because he's gaining an income whilst consequently and irrespective of their opinion, charges his popularity and fame (in hollywood art all press is good press). But I always felt he offered what the 'art world' (or global art/globalised art world as this is more often called, wrongly, for we all know it is derived from anglophone capital art)what was I saying? Oh yes he offers them what they crave, which is a flirtation with the new powers of market control and creative exploits i.e youtube/social media/reality tv among that philistine public whilst simultaneously seeming to critique or complicate it through artistic intentions, although most of which is probably already obvious to us.
And so we also had a few consistent-albeit-safe with a moralising tone thought bites from JJ Charlesworth.
JJ chralesworth the end of experience, the only way outside a post-antropecentic attitude is a abstract athropecentic. What publications like mute were discussing a couple of years prior, but in all earnest. I never dug it then and I still don't now. speculative realsim has yet to ever be anything but one of those philosophical enquiries whose gas of profundity clears away the more you peer into it, to reveal a room of the 'bleedin obvious'.
