Is all art equal?
Bopha likes the work of Christoph Buchel, a Swiss artist who reconstructs 'labyrinthine' spaces within spaces, art at a massive scale and vision. The audience walks, crawls or climbs through the installation. Through this audience involvement the art becomes accessible.
Photo copyright Paul Dyer
Photo copyright Paul Dyer
Every art form has codes. Paintings carry codes of symbols, religion, colour... with conceptual art the meaning can come later as you carry the art around with you, and make connections with other art you see.
The more challenging the art is, the better, art that makes you want to investigate more. Not a decorative piece. Conceptual art - you can't use it as a decorative piece.
'Nothing is new'. Conceptual art is a code of reference. Different types of media are used to forge new pathways and channels of understanding.
Gabrielle Orozco, a Mexican artist, works with the everyday, how it can become transformative.
Orozco intervenes in everyday situations to draw attention to what happens in the margins.
Photocredit DanPhiffer : flickr
'Art exists in a different dimension'. Art collectives are autonomously run, small scale, and not controlled by art market forces. It frees the artists reliance on dealer galleries, which in turn rely on the large institutions to purchase work.
Italo Calvino and Borges 'Labyrinthine': He structures chapters in a way that may resemble natural / scientific processes such as 'crystallisation'. Or sometimes ... it's kind of like a mathematical equation. Concepts upon concepts = formula.
Text that appears random and unplanned, like the everyday, or like conceptual art, and you choose the information you wish to keep, and carry with you.
Book pusher, hehehe, she said "book pusher."
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