I appreciate your patience and position. There's a dissatisfaction with the contemporary situation that both lucidly diagnoses the present and attempts a picture of the future, rather than collapsing into nostalgia or nihilism. Since reading your piece in Caesura, where you suggested that the experience of the particular work is where we can find the solid ground for criticism, I've been excited to read more. And this picture you paint of a collective strategy between artists, gallerists, and collectors is encouraging. From a painter: thank you, and cheers!
Thanks for the kind words! Yeah, still believe that in order to formulate something different from the status quo, our only option is to suspend preconceptions and engage works of art as they appear. From there we can begin to reassess values from the immediate viewing experience. We should avoid superimposing an ideology onto works from outside, rather let our aesthetic intuition guide us towards novel intellectual insights. Thank you for reading and for the thoughtful feedback!
I appreciate your patience and position. There's a dissatisfaction with the contemporary situation that both lucidly diagnoses the present and attempts a picture of the future, rather than collapsing into nostalgia or nihilism. Since reading your piece in Caesura, where you suggested that the experience of the particular work is where we can find the solid ground for criticism, I've been excited to read more. And this picture you paint of a collective strategy between artists, gallerists, and collectors is encouraging. From a painter: thank you, and cheers!
Thanks for the kind words! Yeah, still believe that in order to formulate something different from the status quo, our only option is to suspend preconceptions and engage works of art as they appear. From there we can begin to reassess values from the immediate viewing experience. We should avoid superimposing an ideology onto works from outside, rather let our aesthetic intuition guide us towards novel intellectual insights. Thank you for reading and for the thoughtful feedback!
Agreed that it's the only way.