Selected artists’ statements were discussed on 23rd Feb 2011 in Really Free School. We talked about following artists: Martin Kippenberger, Marcel Duchamp, Douglas Huebler, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky and Paul McCarthy. Photocopies with statements were given away and the PDF version of that material can be seen here.
Month: February 2011
Catch the statement â Discussing/writing artists’ statements
Wed, 23 Feb 2011, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Really Free School
The Black Horse â 6 Rathbone Place [map]
A meeting will start with 2 quotes from Martin Kippenberger’s (1953-1997):
“I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures.”
“I’m not a ‘real’ painter, nor a ‘real’ sculptor; I only look at all that from the outside and sometimes try my hand at it, trying to add my own particular spice. I’m not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling. I always think of the things I do, quite unambiguously, as truly living vehicles. Assuming roles is something that simply won’t work for me, since I don’t have a style. None at all. My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history”.
A few more examples of statements from other artists will follow, then a discussion about them and writing down your own statements. Photocopies of presented statements will be provided. All will take approx. 30 min.
Variable words about Douglas Huebler
A talk at Really Free School 18 Feb 2011 5pm 34-35 Fitzroy Square London
Douglas Huebler has been on my radar since 2008. From that year I try to trace his publications or see his works. It is not easy task, he is not as much popular as other Conceptual artists- at least I got this impression. There is interesting essay about him written by a fellow student of him and artist Mike Kelley called Shall We Kill Daddy? In that text written in 1997 there is a part: âIn much of Huebler’s early work there had been a tension between surface blandness and infinite meaning. Take for example Duration Piece #2, Paris, 1970, where the viewer is presented with six snapshots said to illustrate the âtimeless serenityâ of a statue seen in the distance behind some cement trucks. The accompanying text informs us of the mechanistic intervals at which the statue was photographed, but also tells us that the photos have been shuffled so they are chronologically out of sequence. No longer reportage, we are instead presented with time scrambled – which produces, I suppose, the statue’s âtimeless serenityâ.â [Read full text here]
Huebler is important for my practise and to be precise all his works where he combines photography and text. He is an artist with an interest in humans, in fellow people and there is space for fun in his works too. Bellow I attach one of his works and hereâs a picture with more works, bio info and bibliography. [Images from the book: Douglas Huebler, Camden Arts Centre, 2002]
