Robert Smithson
Essay:
Cultural Confinement by Robert Smithson
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition , rather than asking an artist to set his limits. Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories. Some artists imagine they’ve got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold [...]
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“Creating a Sense of Oneness” by Louise Buyo and Jim Hall
In the mid-nineties, Dahlsen was gathering driftwood on the Victorian Coastline for a furniture project when he found huge amounts of plastic litter washed up along the shore. The artist accumulated 80 bags of the garbage and dragged them to his studio to begin his [...]
Felice Varini is and artist who works with “architectural space and everything that constitutes such space.” He collects spatial data (architecture, materials, history and function) and then paints large scale geometric shapes in broken segments upon multiple pieces of architecture so that a solid shape forms when standing at a specifically designated vantage point.
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