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Mind Over Matter: 6 Conceptual Artists at the Whitney Museum

1991
58m

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Mind Over Matter: 6 Conceptual Artists at the Whitney Museum (1991)

Representatives of a third generation of conceptual painters and sculptors, these six artists challenge the notion of art and embrace a unique radicalism. In their hands, the traditional matter of sculpture, material and space is subordinated to the demands of the mind. The artists return to the Whitney to view and discuss their exhibition with curator Richard Armstrong and critic Bruce Ferguson.

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Representatives of a third generation of conceptual painters and sculptors, these six artists have turned from the self-conscious absorption of formalist art, addressing instead social as we... Read allRepresentatives of a third generation of conceptual painters and sculptors, these six artists have turned from the self-conscious absorption of formalist art, addressing instead social as well as aesthetic issues. Through a shared instinct to question and challenge the defined ar... Read allRepresentatives of a third generation of conceptual painters and sculptors, these six artists have turned from the self-conscious absorption of formalist art, addressing instead social as well as aesthetic issues. Through a shared instinct to question and challenge the defined art movements of previous generations, the featured artists create in a unique sector of the... Read all

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- Michael Blackwood
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- Michael Blackwood
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Ashley Bickerton: I made films all through art school, in fact the only time I ever didn't want to be an artist was in art school. I made films and wrote poetry. And it came down to when I got out of art school what exactly I wanted to be and I decided ultimately against film because I couldn't deal with people. It's that simple. So, I realized that- whereas art you can deal with people as much as you want. If you get lonely you can change your work a bit. That's the thing we have the option to do as artists. In a way we're very lucky. We get to change our work to deal with whatever the heck we want to deal with and however many people we want to deal with. If we want to make it expansive as far as the amount of humans we contact we can, or we can make it utterly hermetic and stay away so you just design it according to your needs.