CONTEMPORARY ART BLOG
Anja Foerschner and Fabrizio Pizzuto
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The Value of things
Establishing the price of an artwork is an enterprise which allows for difference of opinion. We are flooded with documentaries and books, mostly from the US, which illustrate the madness of the contemporary art world: the auctions, the scams, the infinite amount of money that flows through it. This, apparently, is the most fascinating way to tell the story. We also have critics and gallerists such as Jerry Saltz,...
On the material disappearance of the artwork, some possibilities and consequences
“Il faut être absolument moderne.”“One must be absolutely modern”A. Rimbaud “Tant fait l’homme qu’à la fin il disparait”“A man does so much that eventually he disappears”R. Queneau The perspective plane moves to the forefront, we see it approaching slowly but inescapably like a zoom-in tending towards abstraction. We are now in front of the paintings. The figures begin to float in the background losing their...