I have recently returned from the Venice Biennale, there is so much to see and so many pavilions you should not miss, my personal favorite was the Iraq pavilion, for a country that has been torn apart by war, it was refreshing to see NADINE HATTOM personnel journey from Iraq to Australia. Her journey gave a true human perspective on what it is like to be an Iraq.
You're right in many ways. The evolution of art has meant pushing the boundaries and receiving criticism from the establishment over and over again.my favorite artists Gabriel Orozco, Margarita Dittborn, Gabino amaya cacho, Al borde and Julio Bittencourt.
Meanwhile... out in the real world. It seems that the world of contemporary art has become a smorgasbord of visual effects for cognoscenti to consume. But it has also become fragmented -- increasingly devoid of any clear structure, focus or purpose. It's great if you are a serious fan of aggregations.
Noe Berengena oh wow! I couldn't agree more! My thoughts exactly. No purpose, no structure. Just a bunch of items thrown together to meet a dead line and make a few dollars are proudly called art? I'm ashamed FOR the creators and galleries that allow this hot mess to be displayed!
La stragrande maggioranza dell' arte esposta e'stata fatta proprio per grandi spazi museali impossibile che si possa vendere a privati, e' l'idea che conta, ho l'impressione che molti "artisti" siano incapaci di fare un bel quadro da appendere al muro, comunque la biennale e'sempre una manifestazione da visitare.
When did beauty become a dirty word? When did dissonance and shock come to be thought of as profound? I think that much contemporary art comes from people who can not and will not do the difficult work required to become a 'traditional' artist. Can't master the necessary skills ? No knowledge of perspective? Can't draw? Don't want to have to learn color theory? Can't master composition? No knowledge of human anatomy? Can't render tonal values Can’t be bothered ? These are skills that you have to WORK to perfect. It’s difficult. It takes…..effort. But if you want a fast track to the exalted position of "artist “, then you must belittle the importance of those skills and debase the notion that they are a prerequisite to creating art. Instead, create an art genre that you CAN do. A new genre. And let's call it Conceptual art. Conceptual artists claim that IDEAS and CONCEPTS are the main feature of their art. They can slap anything together and call it ''conceptual art'' confident that viewers will find SOMETHING to think about it no matter how banal or trivial the artist's concept! There is no way conceptual art pieces can be judged. The promoters of this art have attacked the motives and credibility of authorities and critics who might disparage the work. They have rejected museums and galleries as defining authorities. They reject the idea that art can be judged or criticized . All of this results in a decline in standards. And when you jettison standards, quality suffers. There really IS such a thing as BAD art ! We know this only because we have standards and criteria by which such things can be evaluated. It seems that conceptual art comes down to a basic idea: No one has the right or authority to make any judgements about art ! Art is anything you can get away with ! A whole new language has been created to give the work an air of legitimacy and gravitas. Conceptual art is 'sold' to the unwary public with ....."ArtSpeak". ArtSpeak is a unique assemblage of English words and phrases that the International Art world uses but which are devoid of meaning! Have you ever found yourself confronted by an art gallery’s description of an exhibition which seems completely indecipherable? Or an artist’s statement about their work which left you more confused than enlightened? You’re not alone. Here are examples of ArtSpeak: 'Works that probe the dialectic between innovations that seem to have been forgotten, the ruinous present state of projects once created amid great euphoria, and the present as an era of transitions and new beginnings.'' Or ''The exhibition reactivates his career-long investigation into the social mutations of desire and repression. But his earlier concerns with repression production--in the adolescent or in the family as a whole--give way to the vertiginous retrieval and wayward reinvention of mythical community and sub-cultural traditions.'' This language is meant to convince me that there is real substance to this drivel which is being passed off as art. I don't buy it. But plenty of other people DO buy it. Not because they love the work. They are laying out enormous sums in the belief that their investment will bring them high returns in the future. One Jeff Koons conceptual piece is three basketballs suspended in a fish tank. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Three_Ball_Total_Equilibrium_Tank_by_Jeff_Koons,_Tate_Liverpool.jpg Here is Koons' own ArtSpeak explanation of his floating basketball 'concept' verbatim: “ This is an ultimate state of being. I wanted to play with people’s desires. They desire this equilibrium. They desire pre-birth. I was giving a definition of life and death. This is the eternal. This is what life is like, also, after death. Aspects of the eternal” Rather lofty goals for 3 basketballs suspended in a fish tank!! It sold for $350,000. I wonder what it would have fetched without Koons' name attached to it. Or take the case of Martin Creed's ball of crumpled white copy paper. www.abebooks.com/signed/Work-sheet-paper-crumpled-ball-Creed/7404135374/bd He made almost 700 of them! Some sold for hundreds of dollars. Martin Creed, when asked during an interview how he would respond to those who say the crumpled paper ball isn’t art said : “ I wouldn’t call this art either. Who says, anyway, what’s good and what’s bad?” Interviewer: ''When confronted with conceptual art, we shouldn’t worry whether it’s art or not because no one really knows what art is.'' Is this what art has come to?? _______________________________ Something radical has happened to the art scene in the past 60 years. Cubism slid into non-representational art....what is often called Abstract. Abstract or non-representational art is a legitimate and often profound genre. But to many people, it appeared as if this new style had no structure, principles or standards of evaluation. It’s markings seemed random and arbitrary. Something that anyone could do. Any composition of blotches or scribbles could be passed off as “Abstract Art”. This was the slippery slope that led to the abandonment of standards in art. Art is what I say it is....and lots of people jumped on the art bandwagon. Anyone can be an artist. Anyone can mount a show. And who is to say if it has value or not ? A tacit agreement has formed among critics, galleries, publications and auction houses to promote and celebrate certain artists and styles. Objects with no artistic merit are touted and praised . Their value increases with every magazine article, every exhibition in a prestigious gallery. And when they come up for auction, sometimes the auction houses will lend vast sums to a bidder so that it appears as if the work of the particular artist is increasing in value. The upward spiral begins and fortunes are made. And many are reluctant to declare that the Emperor is, in fact, naked lest they appear boorish unsophisticated Philistines ! This is what dominates the art market today. The love of money is the root of all evil. It has corrupted politics. It has corrupted sport. It has corrupted healthcare. It has corrupted religion. And now it has corrupted art. But, there is reason to hope. As much of the wisdom of the Greeks and Romans was kept alive through the Middle Ages in small pockets of learning and culture, ateliers have sprung up around the world that are devoted to preserving and handing down the traditional visual arts: drawing, painting and sculpting to each new generation. And when this craze for conceptual art has burned itself out and when visual art is no longer looked on as mere decoration and when schools that have dissolved their art programs want to reestablish them again, the world will find these skills preserved through the atelier movement.
il padiglione Japponese, e la stupenda sorpresa che conteneva, valeva il viaggio intero. che esperienza. ma i conservatori....queste cose le aborrono....mi spiace per loro
è una cagata PAZZESCA! continuate continuate così a chiamarla "arte". Che imbecillità! Tutto e il contrario di tutto. Ma leggetevi l'elenco telefonico che ha più contenuti!
Scusa ma non stai bene con la testa se affermi quanto sopra . Potresti argomentare il tuo dissenso in maniera " CULTURAMENTE CONGRUA e RISPETTOSA " della infinità di artisti presenti ???
ma santo cielo. come fate a dire che Tutto assolutamente tutto e' una cagata pazzesca. Ma cosa pensate di voi stessi? la stessa cosa? ahh, allora ho capito !
Did I just watch 11 minutes and 22 seconds to see wads of trash,( no, trash would have been more creative) or plain paper suspended from a ceiling? What a waste of time...and paper!
Wow! That huge! From the video I didn’t get much ‘heart’ from the works. I imagine I would ‘feel’ different in person. Nice. Thank you.
I have recently returned from the Venice Biennale, there is so
much to see and so many pavilions you should not miss, my personal favorite
was the Iraq pavilion, for a country
that has been torn apart by war, it was refreshing to see NADINE HATTOM personnel
journey from Iraq to Australia. Her journey gave a true human
perspective on what it is like to be an Iraq.
You're right in many ways. The evolution of art has meant pushing the boundaries and receiving criticism from the establishment over and over again.my favorite artists Gabriel Orozco, Margarita Dittborn, Gabino amaya cacho, Al borde and Julio Bittencourt.
Gostei muito
Mi piace molto
Великолепно!
2:31 "ah le vans sono belle" beeeeeeeelle beeeeeeeeeeelle . muahaha
Wonderful
Super ..... work s❤️
thank you!
Great! I 'd love to participate a next one in 2019
wouah 🙏
fantastisch
Meanwhile... out in the real world. It seems that the world of contemporary art has become a smorgasbord of visual effects for cognoscenti to consume. But it has also become fragmented -- increasingly devoid of any clear structure, focus or purpose. It's great if you are a serious fan of aggregations.
Noe Berengena oh wow! I couldn't agree more! My thoughts exactly. No purpose, no structure. Just a bunch of items thrown together to meet a dead line and make a few dollars are proudly called art? I'm ashamed FOR the creators and galleries that allow this hot mess to be displayed!
ottimo
If its BIG....it must be important......art (?)
j adore l Italie.
great review ★
HAMPARTE !!! Look it up in the dicionary.☺☺☺
Non parte il videooo
La stragrande maggioranza dell' arte esposta e'stata fatta proprio per grandi spazi museali impossibile che si possa vendere a privati, e' l'idea che conta, ho l'impressione che molti "artisti" siano incapaci di fare un bel quadro da appendere al muro, comunque la biennale e'sempre una manifestazione da visitare.
Smart and potent artists must without fail counterpropose something . Otherwise we will sink into absolute darkness .
When did beauty become a dirty word?
When did dissonance and shock come to be thought of as profound?
I think that much contemporary art comes from people who can not and will not do the difficult work required to become a 'traditional' artist.
Can't master the necessary skills ?
No knowledge of perspective?
Can't draw?
Don't want to have to learn color theory?
Can't master composition?
No knowledge of human anatomy?
Can't render tonal values
Can’t be bothered ?
These are skills that you have to WORK to perfect.
It’s difficult.
It takes…..effort.
But if you want a fast track to the exalted position of "artist “, then you must belittle the importance of those skills and debase the notion that they are a prerequisite to creating art.
Instead, create an art genre that you CAN do.
A new genre.
And let's call it Conceptual art.
Conceptual artists claim that IDEAS and CONCEPTS are the main feature of their art.
They can slap anything together and call it ''conceptual art'' confident that viewers will find SOMETHING to think about it no matter how banal or trivial the artist's concept!
There is no way conceptual art pieces can be judged.
The promoters of this art have attacked the motives and credibility of authorities and critics who might disparage the work.
They have rejected museums and galleries as defining authorities.
They reject the idea that art can be judged or criticized .
All of this results in a decline in standards.
And when you jettison standards, quality suffers.
There really IS such a thing as BAD art !
We know this only because we have standards and criteria by which such things can be evaluated.
It seems that conceptual art comes down to a basic idea:
No one has the right or authority to make any judgements about art !
Art is anything you can get away with !
A whole new language has been created to give the work an air of legitimacy and gravitas.
Conceptual art is 'sold' to the unwary public with ....."ArtSpeak".
ArtSpeak is a unique assemblage of English words and phrases that the International Art world uses but which are devoid of meaning!
Have you ever found yourself confronted by an art gallery’s description of an exhibition which seems completely indecipherable?
Or an artist’s statement about their work which left you more confused than enlightened?
You’re not alone.
Here are examples of ArtSpeak:
'Works that probe the dialectic between innovations that seem to have been forgotten, the ruinous present state of projects once created amid great euphoria, and the present as an era of transitions and new beginnings.''
Or
''The exhibition reactivates his career-long investigation into the social mutations of desire and repression. But his earlier concerns with repression production--in the adolescent or in the family as a whole--give way to the vertiginous retrieval and wayward reinvention of mythical community and sub-cultural traditions.''
This language is meant to convince me that there is real substance to this drivel which is being passed off as art.
I don't buy it.
But plenty of other people DO buy it.
Not because they love the work.
They are laying out enormous sums in the belief that their investment will bring them high returns in the future.
One Jeff Koons conceptual piece is three basketballs suspended in a fish tank.
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Three_Ball_Total_Equilibrium_Tank_by_Jeff_Koons,_Tate_Liverpool.jpg
Here is Koons' own ArtSpeak explanation of his floating basketball 'concept' verbatim:
“ This is an ultimate state of being.
I wanted to play with people’s desires.
They desire this equilibrium.
They desire pre-birth.
I was giving a definition of life and death.
This is the eternal.
This is what life is like, also, after death.
Aspects of the eternal”
Rather lofty goals for 3 basketballs suspended in a fish tank!!
It sold for $350,000.
I wonder what it would have fetched without Koons' name attached to it.
Or take the case of Martin Creed's ball of crumpled white copy paper.
www.abebooks.com/signed/Work-sheet-paper-crumpled-ball-Creed/7404135374/bd
He made almost 700 of them!
Some sold for hundreds of dollars.
Martin Creed, when asked during an interview how he would respond to those who say the crumpled paper ball isn’t art said :
“ I wouldn’t call this art either. Who says, anyway, what’s good and what’s bad?”
Interviewer:
''When confronted with conceptual art, we shouldn’t worry whether it’s art or not because no one really knows what art is.''
Is this what art has come to??
_______________________________
Something radical has happened to the art scene in the past 60 years.
Cubism slid into non-representational art....what is often called Abstract.
Abstract or non-representational art is a legitimate and often profound genre.
But to many people, it appeared as if this new style had no structure, principles or standards of evaluation.
It’s markings seemed random and arbitrary.
Something that anyone could do.
Any composition of blotches or scribbles could be passed off as “Abstract Art”.
This was the slippery slope that led to the abandonment of standards in art.
Art is what I say it is....and lots of people jumped on the art bandwagon.
Anyone can be an artist.
Anyone can mount a show.
And who is to say if it has value or not ?
A tacit agreement has formed among critics, galleries, publications and auction houses to promote and celebrate certain artists and styles.
Objects with no artistic merit are touted and praised .
Their value increases with every magazine article, every exhibition in a prestigious gallery.
And when they come up for auction, sometimes the auction houses will lend vast sums to a bidder so that it appears as if the work of the particular artist is increasing in value.
The upward spiral begins and fortunes are made.
And many are reluctant to declare that the Emperor is, in fact, naked lest they appear boorish unsophisticated Philistines !
This is what dominates the art market today.
The love of money is the root of all evil.
It has corrupted politics.
It has corrupted sport.
It has corrupted healthcare.
It has corrupted religion.
And now it has corrupted art.
But, there is reason to hope.
As much of the wisdom of the Greeks and Romans was kept alive through the Middle Ages in small pockets of learning and culture, ateliers have sprung up around the world that are devoted to preserving and handing down the traditional visual arts: drawing, painting and sculpting to each new generation.
And when this craze for conceptual art has burned itself out and when visual art is no longer looked on as mere decoration and when schools that have dissolved their art programs want to reestablish them again, the world will find these skills preserved through the atelier movement.
Thank you very much for your detailed thoughts.
I get what you are saying. So allow me to share at least one contemporary artist with you. Bill Viola. Hope you enjoy.
@@deepquake9 - certainly a cut above the common herd.
IMPOSTURISM - CRETINISM . The new art movement .
Eventually Sotheby & Christies will SELL some piece for over $ 500 million for $ 5. 00 base price, Buy some Stocks NOW .
What a load of crap. Unbelievable.
totally,Why are Bienalles so crap like Eurovision muzak
il padiglione Japponese, e la stupenda sorpresa che conteneva, valeva il viaggio intero. che esperienza. ma i conservatori....queste cose le aborrono....mi spiace per loro
Imposture !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
è una cagata PAZZESCA! continuate continuate così a chiamarla "arte". Che imbecillità! Tutto e il contrario di tutto. Ma leggetevi l'elenco telefonico che ha più contenuti!
Scusa ma non stai bene con la testa se affermi quanto sopra . Potresti argomentare il tuo dissenso in maniera " CULTURAMENTE CONGRUA e RISPETTOSA " della infinità di artisti presenti ???
Cos'è che tu chiami arte?
Forse la chiami cagata PAZZESCA perchè magari non la conosci, non conosci l'Arte!
ma santo cielo. come fate a dire che Tutto assolutamente tutto e' una cagata pazzesca. Ma cosa pensate di voi stessi? la stessa cosa? ahh, allora ho capito !
"Contemporary " art is very very very OLD 'n DEGENERATIVE now .
Bah, ça à l'air bien chiant dans cet entre soi ....
POOR SHYTT
NO.
Did I just watch 11 minutes and 22 seconds to see wads of trash,( no, trash would have been more creative) or plain paper suspended from a ceiling? What a waste of time...and paper!