New comment on the gallery comment kiosk by insideoutsider from here and there at 1:30 pm Saturday, May 31, 2014 As I read through all the “dont get it” comments and consider things like the inclusion of titles of past Belkin shows in Guadalupe Martinezs work; the references to the MFA studio space and the working process of contemporary artists in general that permeate the show; the reality that there are absent performances anyone who wasnt present at the opening has no access to; and the way the essays about the artists in the catalogue are hardly more than tangential to the work in the show, Im forced to consider the jargon and private language of contemporary art. There isnt much argument that contemporary art can be inaccessible to the uninitiated. But is that a bad thing? I dont think so. Here we are, more or less a century down the road from the high point of big-M Modernism and the ideas around non-mimetic representations that were radical and “ugly” and inaccessible then have only recently filtered into the realm of general knowledge. No one baulks at Picasso or Van Gogh anymore. And likewise the century-old radical ideas in other fields, for example Einsteins relativity, are general knowledge now and the equations for time dilation and relativistic addition of velocities are taught in high-school--and *everyone* knows E=mc^2. With that said, who in their right mind would expect graduate-level work in physics, or any other field for that matter, to be immediately accessible to someone with a high-school level point of entry or less? Should... buff.ly/RQrjwf
Posted on: Sat, 31 May 2014 20:52:00 +0000
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