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Repository 57: Word Obsession: Artists & Their Love of Text
MESE DI MARZO DELL ANNO MILLE NOVE 100 OTTANTANOVE, 1989 Embroidery on fabric; 43 1/4 x 42 1/4 inches (109.9 x 107.3 cm), image courtesy of Fondazione Alighiero e Boetti and Gladstone Gallery “What you put your attention on grows stronger.” – Anonymous In the last six months I have been obsessively writing and making art in tandom – I’ve always written in my studio practice, and amassed a collection of art books that rivals the local bookstore’s art section….
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Repository 47: A Painting Dissected – John Currin and The Dogwood Thieves
Image John Currin, Dogwood Thieves, courtesy of the artist and Gagosian Gallery. While we are mostly subjected to completed works by artists, it is quite something else to consider the very real and tiresome steps to which an artist arrives at the end of a painting for example. Some of the incredible shifts that go on in many studio practices would give you whiplash. Be thankful you are only left to decode, summon and question the “finished” pieces on gallery/museum/web…
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