Process shots of “I’m never going to get there / You will achieve great things” (ink on plywood sheet, 8’ x 4’ 2013).
The piece consists of two opposing phrases “I am never going to get there” and “You will achieve great things”, written over and over again until the canvas becomes incoherent and unreadable. Each layer consists of about 500 sentences, and there are 10 layers.
otto piene
Otto Piene
Mana Fest at Mana Contemporary, Saturday May 4th, 1-7PM
Mana Contemporaryis new to the NYC contemporary art scene. A 1.8 million square foot former tobacco…
I am too sad to tell you (1970) - Bas Jan Ader
SO DIRTY LOL
A graduate of Brown University, he maintains that one of the essential skills of a curator is the ability to write well and clearly, as opposed to a heavy handed theorizing. In fact he has frequently mentioned that he does not fully comprehend an exhibition until he comes to write the essay. “you always discover things you never suspected about the show,” he says. For him there is a difference between curators who write and those who don’t, since writing helps one to think through the issues in each exhibition. It was also through writing that he came to be a curator.
— Ralph Rugoff - http://www.brooklynrail.org/2007/11/artseen/seeing-in-a-different-light-a-profile-of
