Creating is free, but contemplation is not. "We are under the dictatorship of the most mediocre". I found that Mexican Art Critic Avelina Lesper gave a conference at the National School of Visual Arts in Mexico City, and I aplaude what she had to say. We"ll have to start a Art revolution =). The article itself is in Spanish, but I took the liberty to translate it as well as I could. Worth reading. _____________________________________ Mexico City. - In order to make their arguments on why contemporary art is a "fake art", art critic Avelina Lésper offered the conference "Contemporary Art-The unquestionable dogma" in the National School Visual Arts (ENAP) where she was applauded by students. "The lack of rigor (in the works) has allowed the emptiness of creativity. The occurrence and the lack of intelligence have become the bound values of this “false art” not leaving behind the fact that any thing is displayed in museums," said Lésper. She explained that the objects and the aesthetic values that are presented as art are accepted in complete submission to the principles imposed by authority. This causes that each day less intelligent societies are formed and barbarism is followed. She also addressed the issue of Ready Made Artists, upon which she said that with this new wave of "art" we have returned to the most basic elementary way of human thought, irrationality, magical thinking, thus, denying reality. The art is reduced to a fanciful belief and its presence. "We need art and not beliefs." Therefore, she highlighted the concept of "genius"- the artist with irreplaceable works of art: characters that currently do not exist. "Today with the overpopulation of artists, these works are not expendable and rapidly they are replaced by another, because its lack of uniqueness." She explained that the replacement of artists is given by the low quality of their work, "everything that the artist does is predestined to be art, excrement, aversions, hatred, personal items, imitation, ignorance, disease, personal photos, internet messages, toys, etc. Making art now a day is an egotistical exercise, the performances, videos, installations are made with such obvious overwhelming creative simplicity. These are pieces that appeal to the least of efforts, and its creative accessibility affirms a reality: that anyone can do it. " In that sense, not giving to the artist the status he deserves causes an abysmal space between the art and the people - it trivializes it. "Every time someone without real merits and without exceptional work has an exhibition, makes art decrease in its presence and conception. The more artists there are, the worse the works are. The amount is not providing quality". "The Ready Made Artist touches all areas with little professionalism; if it produces video, it does not reach the standards they ask at the cinema or in advertising; if he produces technological messages, it does not accomplish what a properly educated techno person means; if the work is involved with sounds, it is not even compatible to the experience of a DJ. It is assumed that if the work falls into the category of “contemporary art” it does not have to reach even the minimum range of quality in its realization. Artists do extraordinary things and they show their status of creators on every piece they produce. Neither Demian Hirst, Gabriel Orozco or Teresa Margolles, nor the vast growing list of people who think they are artists show this. And this is not me who declares it, it is shown in the final work” she said. As an advice to students, she indicated to let their work speak for itself, not to a curator, not to a system, not to a dogma, "the work will tell whether or not you are artists. And if you make this false art, I repeat, you are not artists. " Lésper assured that today art has ceased to be inclusive, so that it has turned against its own dogmatic principles and if the viewer does not like it, he is accused of "ignorant and stupid declaring at the same time with great arrogance, if you don’t like it is because you do not understand it. " "The viewer, to avoid being called ignorant can not even remotely say what he/she thinks. For this art, if viewers are not submissive to its works they are imbeciles, ignorant and never fall short of the above or their artists. This way the viewer is exposed to works which show absolutely no presence of intelligence” she complained. Finally, she noted that contemporary art is inbred elitist; as a segregationist vocation conducted for its bureaucratic structure to please the institutions and their sponsors. "The obsession of teaching, the need to explain each work, each exhibition, the over production of text is the implicit dimension of judgment, the denial of free aesthetic experience defines, names and over-intellectualizes the work to overvalue it and to prevent that the viewer’s perception be exercised naturally. " Creating is free, but contemplation is not. "We are under the dictatorship of the most mediocre vanguardia.mx/elartecontemporaneoesunafarsaavelinalesper-1362825.html
Posted on: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 18:49:06 +0000
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