Anodyne
Friday, October 21, 2005
 
Hadley and Maxwell reflect on Derek Brunen's Sold:

"The sign of the red 'sold' dot is a stamp of approval, a trace of a collector’s taste applied alongside an artwork. It is the intermediary mark of the dealer’s hand applying an aesthetic element to the display, marking the event of a legitimation of property authorized by a client. In this sense, the sold dot is a trace left in the passing through of propriety itself – a lacuna of property. The sold dot is a conspicuous display of an anonymous endorsement, which, these days, is a generic and familiar place-holder of relation. The sold dot is a sign of success: something worthy has been exchanged, acquired, understood; someone has been touched, moved, convinced, intrigued, flattered, cajoled, or pressured; someone else has been congratulated, encouraged, complimented, supported, annoyed, insulted. The sold dot marks a series of invisible transactions expressed in a number of languages (monetary, verbal, visual, ideological) set up by an economy of art. Neighbour to the artwork, the sold dot announces a constellation of subjects who are successfully enacting this economy."
- posted by cjb @ 12:07 PM


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