Tag: contemporary art
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Eleanor Antin
I remember the time I stopped an artwork and for me, that’s one of the 8 deadly sins, censoring an artwork. I had asked the students to make a criminal artwork, to do a crime, as it were, but not to hurt themselves or anybody else. One kid brought in a thriving rubber plant and…
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John Baldessari
It’s a dramatic gesture, carpeting the whole gallery with clouds, and… covering the ceiling with this freeway pattern. I’m going to have all the guards wearing bowler hats. — John Baldessari on his design for a 2006 exhibition, Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, LACMA
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Maurizio Cattelan
The Guggenheim Museum has a cinematic quality; if you work in that space it unwinds. I would say that my installation is static but the way the visitors see it could be a personal cinematic viewing. I love movies. Yes. Well, more than cinematic, it’s like the sculptures are movies compressed into one still, suggesting…