Why conceptual artists are painting again

Not sure it can be said this is a general theory of practice, which he sort of suggests he is trying to develop, but useful for me in thinking about working with predefined contexts and expectations generated by that particular context as an opportunity to do something else.

Or is it one liner, as in a joke, which consists of two lines — the set up and the punch line? Do you think Martin Creed is an interesting artist? Or is he merely another one liner guy?

John suggested he is a no liner artist so we thought you might like him, but that is what got us asking about what one liner art means so we were unsure how to proceed with the reasoning on that one. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. Category Painting. Jan Verwoert. Related See more related.

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Lecture featuring Berlin-based critic Jan Verwoert examining the developments of art after Conceptualism. How can we describe then what medium-specific practices like painting or sculpture can do today? Likewise, it seems, that we can still not quite convincingly describe to ourselves what Conceptual Art can be: An art of pure ideas?

An art of smart strategic moves and puns? We have advertising agencies for that. The social and political dimension of Conceptualism has been discussed, but often only in apodictic terms, not acknowledging the humour, the wit, the existential, emotional or erotic aspects, as well as the iconophile, not just iconoclast motives, that have always also been at play in the dialectics and politics of life-long conceptual practices.

The talk will start off a series of monthly talks and conversations about the conditions of contemporary practice. The idea is to invent a new language together in discussions that could describe the potentials of contemporary practice; a language that would acknowledge a shared sense of crisis and doubt, yet fight the senseless paranoia over legitimation that too much bad-faith criticism today exploits in the wake of second-generation institutional critique.

In other words: how could, in response to the concerns of contemporary art practice, a critical vocabulary be developed that would break the spell of the oedipal infatuation with the laws of institutional legitimacy — and instead help to transform criticism into a truly gay science based on a shared sense of appreciation and irreverence?

Jan Verwoert is an art critic based in Berlin.