I've just listened to this . I dare not venture a comment of my own , except to say that I found th majority of th opinions expressed in this video to be rite apt . I like that th commentators made room for ambivalence , their respective feelings of disenchantment w th work tempered in shades of grey !
Personally I LOVE Stella's work (R.I.P )... however one important aspect of sculpture is how it rests on the ground plane or vertical wall etc. Its sense of gravity, weight, balance giving sculpture a feeling of equal and adjacent visual context to a viewer. But these particular pieces have metal stands and racks that truly have nothing to do with the sculptures, (conceptually or with artistic merit)... they are merely holding up the work like a mechanic does with a car, or clothes in a clothing store... Other than that the materials and colors and compositions are great 😊
Maybe the first time I have seen art that is clearly ahead of its time ( the coloured giant ones, not so much the silver box ones). In 10 to 20 years time these will be considered as important as the work of Marcel Duchamp. He's already one of the great 20th century artists, but these push him way into the 21st too.
It may be that what is lacking, as the conversation illustrates a sense of an essential something missing in the work; is the disconnect of the artist from the media. When harking back to David Smith & Giacometti, those artists worked directly with the media. Stella is reacting to the media, yet not working it himself. This body of work is produced using cast-offs from industrially cut stainless steel that is then assembled and welded by a team, or 3D computer modeling that is then industrially produced. The sense of this work as Product is inherent to the process of production, and perhaps this obtuse line back to the artist is part of what Stella found appealing in the final forms.
Stella has been a process sculptor from the begining of his career. His work is heartless. Void of a psychological center. Travel to any western city and you'll find in lobbies of corporate buildings some odd ball Stella collecting dust. Wilkin tries to make much ado out nothing much as she recites the same old same old taught in art schools for 50 years ago . The sculptors are honest in their emotional reponses to these thing-a-ma- jigs. opinions are . American modernism hit the wall decades ago.
A truly creative, experimental artist.
I've just listened to this . I dare not venture a comment of my own , except to say that I found th majority of th opinions expressed in this video to be rite apt . I like that th commentators made room for ambivalence , their respective feelings of disenchantment w th work tempered in shades of grey !
Personally I LOVE Stella's work (R.I.P )... however one important aspect of sculpture is how it rests on the ground plane or vertical wall etc. Its sense of gravity, weight, balance giving sculpture a feeling of equal and adjacent visual context to a viewer. But these particular pieces have metal stands and racks that truly have nothing to do with the sculptures, (conceptually or with artistic merit)... they are merely holding up the work like a mechanic does with a car, or clothes in a clothing store...
Other than that the materials and colors and compositions are great 😊
Maybe the first time I have seen art that is clearly ahead of its time ( the coloured giant ones, not so much the silver box ones). In 10 to 20 years time these will be considered as important as the work of Marcel Duchamp. He's already one of the great 20th century artists, but these push him way into the 21st too.
It may be that what is lacking, as the conversation illustrates a sense of an essential something missing in the work; is the disconnect of the artist from the media. When harking back to David Smith & Giacometti, those artists worked directly with the media. Stella is reacting to the media, yet not working it himself. This body of work is produced using cast-offs from industrially cut stainless steel that is then assembled and welded by a team, or 3D computer modeling that is then industrially produced. The sense of this work as Product is inherent to the process of production, and perhaps this obtuse line back to the artist is part of what Stella found appealing in the final forms.
Stella has been a process sculptor from the begining of his career. His work is heartless. Void of a psychological center. Travel to any western city and you'll find in lobbies of corporate buildings some odd ball Stella collecting dust. Wilkin tries to make much ado out nothing much as she recites the same old same old taught in art schools for 50 years ago . The sculptors are honest in their emotional reponses to these thing-a-ma- jigs. opinions are . American modernism hit the wall decades ago.