1 - ∞ : Aesthetics of time
8.8.2020
1 - ∞ : Aesthetics of time
8.8.2020
Time, seen as the artist’s own transience, seen as medium or as creating force, and at the same time time as subject of the artwork. Time as a life project, as a tool to illustrate histories of the past or as a witness to the Zeitgeist. From Roman Opalka to On Kawara, we will see how individual artists approach the idea of Time in the works of the collection of Antonio Dalle Nogare.
As part of the tour, there will also be an online screening of the film “Manifesto” by Julian Rosefeldt. The film, in which the actress Cate Blanchett interprets thirteen different characters to present the same number of artist manifestos, revisits the topics discussed during the tour.
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The problematic of time in contemporary art / Nicolas Bourriaud
This text is a transcription of a lecture Bourriaud gave during his visit in Israel in December 2012. The lecture was organized by the MFA program of Bezalel Academy of Arts.
Ludovico Pratesi interviews Roman Opalka for Flash Art
Antiform
Article by Robert Morris for Artforum, 1968, a manifesto for Process Art
Asphalt Rundown
The first of Smithson’s major earthworks designed to exist exclusively outside, Asphalt Rundown is a demonstration of what Smithson called the “crystalline structure of time”.
The concept of "becoming" in the work of Giovanni Anselmo by Niccolò Iacometti
One Million Years (Future)
In 1993, in a decision unprecedented in his oeuvre, Kawara transformed One Million Years (Future) from a written to recorded state. The impetus for this metamorphosis was an exhibition for Dia Center for the Arts that ran from January 1, 1993, to December 31 of the same year. The exhibition was comprised of three parts, a selection of one thousand Today paintings, the ten volumes of One Million Years (Past) and the recording of One million Years (Future), in which a male and female voice continuously, year after year, count into the future.
On Kawara—Silence
Three curators discuss the art of On Kawara and the exhibition On Kawara—Silence at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, which includes every category of work the artist created between 1963 and 2014.
Danh Vo's Use of Found Objects in Art
Vietnamese-born Danish artist Danh Vo often draws on his own personal experience to investigate larger historical, social or political themes, especially those relating to Vietnam towards the end of the 20th century. In this episode, “Brilliant Ideas” looks at Vo’s signature use of found objects (often rich with emotional or historical significance), and how his life and the lives of his family, friends and other artists are a part of his art.
Jumana Manna: The Violence of Beautiful Things
Article on Jumana Manna’s practice in Frieze, August 18, 2018