Key Points
- This is a video by curator Charles Esche, where he talks about issues of present and future of art, in art education. He covers a range of topics from classical art from Rembrant, to formal language of the white cube.
- He talks about the language of art and the gallery and the meaning of artwork.
- The 'gap' in art.
- Art since modernism has been busy with the future.
- Proposition of art is a model for the future. Heterotopian.
- Avanat garde, accessibility.
- "The basic model of an art that is prospective, that is speculative, is still important to hold onto, otherwise art just becomes another product within a market of products which is satisfying an audience, or a public, or a consumer." (Esche, 2012).
- Art practise and public concerns.
- The artist role is to not quite fit in, and the museum also has this role.
Reflections & regard to my own research:
- The quote,"The basic model of an art that is prospective, that is speculative, is still important to hold onto, otherwise art just becomes another product within a market of products which is satisfying an audience, or a public, or a consumer." (Esche, 2012). Is very important to understand a level of critique within the arts, and goes back to Johanna Drucker's book Sweet Dreams, where she says art is always doing something more just because the artist is completing the act of fine art.
- If art is not speculative or is a product, it is stripped of its utopian values, but the high culture of fine art almost saves commercial artwork from critique.
- My own research explores these values through critiquing exactly esches point - 'otherwise art just becomes another product within a market of products which is satisfying an audience, or a public, or a consumer.'
Further research:
- Avant-garde - model, accessibility.
- More on Charles Esche.
- http://www.internationaleonline.org/research/alter_institutionality/70_use_knowledge_art_and_history_a_conversation_between_charles_esche_and_manuel_borja_villel
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