One notorious example of
conceptual art was Damien Hirst's 'The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living' - a dead shark preserved in a glass case which sold for $8m in 2004.
Despite the judges of the prize heralding what they see as Creed's "strength, rigour, wit and sensitivity", Wales's most celebrated artist says the notion of
conceptual art is a "loveless notion of rubbish."
FUNDACION PROA * July 19-October 2 * Curated by Rodrigo Alonso * This rich, international survey of
Conceptual art brings together more than one hundred works made between 1965 and 1975.
A previous example of his
conceptual art was a piece of Blu-tack on a wall.
The first, "Less Is More: Pictures, Objects, Concepts from the Collection and the Archives of Herman and Nicole Daled, 1966-1978," which was on view at the Haus der Kunst in Munich this past spring and summer, made clear that engaged and self-aware collectors actively helped to define the terms of what is known loosely as
Conceptual art. The second, "Che fare?
"Don't Just Stand There--Read!" declares the headline of a 1970 review in the New York Times bemoaning "the cultural nihilism of
Conceptual Art" in spite of its ability to keep "scoring points...[in] an art scene poisoned by the market mentality." Penned by then-staff writer Peter Schjeldahl, the ambivalent article regarding "a movement which demands so much from its audience in return for so little" was writ large in a light box as part of Joseph Kosuth's Information Room (Special Investigation), a 1970 installation recreated within this exhibition.
For her first solo show in New York, Molly Springfield took a page from the history of
Conceptual art ...
Though the pairing of Romanticism with
Conceptual art is hardly common in art-historical writing,
Conceptual art has long been misunderstood as a necessarily dry affair.
In this show, he channeled Mel Bochner's interest in measurement in conjunction with Sol LeWitt's use of diagrams, but not as an epigone; the work certifies that, forty years on, there's life left yet in several of
Conceptual art's strategies.
Isn't it possible that the most conceptual of
Conceptual art would produce intractability because it attempts to trace unnamable emotional shifts, things instantiated only by moot opticality, not language, and presence beyond the visible?
Raad dramatizes the contestation of truth, and by extension rejects the representational transparency often assumed by
Conceptual art's bureaucratic aesthetics, which serves as one model for his practice.
Visionary '70s jazz musician Sun Ra,
Conceptual art kingpin Sol LeWitt, and Galileo each played a starring role in Edgar Arceneaux's recent exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.