Anodyne
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
 

Benjamin H.D. Buchloh gets several interrelated concepts right and wrong simultaneously. Text: "Gerhard Richter: Cologne Cathedral," Artforum, December 2007. Colored annotation -- signifying vehement agreement or disagreement -- by cjb:

"Under present circumstances, it could only be expected that serious professional artists, progressive or conservative, would become increasingly desperate to find alternative institutional and discursive spaces to shelter their work from the violent impact of three forces that have dramatically altered every facet and fraction of artistic practice in the last ten years: digital electronic technology, the globalization of capital, and the monolithic power of an institutionalized art market that aspires to a fast and final merger with the music and fashion industries. A market that seems to have turned Joseph Beuys's prophecy that 'everybody will become an artist' into a travesty with calamitous consequences. How is a traditional artistic subject with its latently aristocratic or manisfestly bourgeois ego formations to respond to a situation in which locust swarms of international mediocrities claiming the status of 'artist' emerge now in greater numbers in a month than the total number of artists recorded in an entire decade up until the 1980s?"
- posted by cjb @ 4:07 PM


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