Curatorial speculations... Painting

"Curatorial speculations on the art of nothing at all when the weather is nice and we would rather go play outside" (Full title) Acrylic painting on paper created by contemporary French artist painter Eric Bourdon.The artwork is varnished. Eric Bourdon's painting on paper titled "Curatorial speculations..." could reveal to the curator certain aesthetic and/or theoretical speculations that contain in themselves the seeds of a curatorial experience about, say, identity, theories of representation, or postmodern malaise. As it's the artist who prefigures and configures the curator's concept, even when curators like Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev or Hans Ulrich Obrist assert with an impertinent volubility their deliberate intention to go chasing a pink rabbit with blue polka dots in mid-season through the green woods of North East Slovakia… However, fanciful academic and curatorial speculations, and arbitrary over-interpretation of works of art, can be examples of intellectual siliness such as those amusingly dissected by Roger Kimball in "The Rape of the Masters". Kimball takes as his epigraph the well-known saying of Bishop Butler, from 1726, that "Everything is what it is and not another thing". And yet, every artwork, considered from a semiotic point of view, is a 'text', a message that has been constructed in any medium and may be typographic, oral or visual in nature. That brings us to this indisputable conclusion : Nothing which is not alive can be art, and nothing which cannot be art can be true. Note : Extra strong drawing paper with grain Carte d'Art 340g by Sennelier (D340). The 20x20cm square of paper is glued to a piece of quality cardboard of the same dimensions. Total thickness : 3mm. © Eric Bourdon

Painting:Acrylic on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:7.9 W x 7.9 H x 0.1 D in

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