People love to lampoon a credulous art world, but the reaction to the fake invisible work of ‘Lana Newstrom’ shows just how repelled we are by its marketplace A lot of people have fallen for a fake news report about ‘invisible art’. Collectors, claimed Canada’s CBC, are paying through the nose for the art of 27-year-old Lana Newstrom even though you cannot see any of it. “Art is about imagination and that is what my work demands of the people interacting with it. You have to imagine a painting or sculpture is in front of you”, the artist supposedly said. |
The invisible art of Lana Newstrom is in fact a hoax, perpetrated by professional radio parodists Pat Kelly and Peter Oldring. But I can see why so many people fell for it – especially having just covered the Turner prize.
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27-year-old artist Lana Newstrom says she is the first artist in the world to create invisible “art.” In a documentary, CBC Radio traveled to her empty studio to learn more about Lana and her unusual artistic process.
According to Newstrom, “Just because you can’t see anything, doesn’t mean I didn’t put hours of work into creating a particular piece”. “Art is about imagination and that is what my work demands of the people interacting with it. You have to imagine a painting or sculpture is in front of you,” says Newstrom. Paul Rooney, Lana’s agent, believes she might be the greatest artist alive working today: “When she describes what you can’t see, you begin to realize why one of her invisible works can fetch upwards of a million dollars.” said Rooney. Published on 28 Sep 2014 Is art invisible to the naked eye any less potent than that which we are able to see, asks Richard Dorment.
I'm finally here at the end of semester 1. I'm looking forward to going home and seeing my friends and family. The plan is to have a small break over the week from Christmas to the New Years. Then, I can get back to work for the assessment in the New Year; probably the 2nd of Jan though because New years day normally comes with a headache.
Interview with BBC's Will Gompertz & Ralph Rugoff the Curator of Invisible: Art about the Unseen14/12/2014 Invisible: Art about the Unseen 1957 - 2012 brings together works from the past half century that explore ideas related to the invisible and the hidden.
The exhibition includes work by some of the most important artists of our time as well as younger artists who have expanded on their legacy - with works to observe and take part in. The BBC's Will Gompertz has been to meet the curator who says the art asks us to make a leap of faith. From 12 June to 5 August, the Hayward Gallery presents Invisible: Art about the Unseen 1957 - 2012 In his 1962 essay ‘After Abstract Expressionism’ Clement Greenberg argued that ‘(u)nder the testing of Modernism more and more of the conventions of the art of painting have shown themselves to be dispensable, unessential (...) thus a stretched or tacked-up canvas already exists as a picture – though not necessarily as a successful one’. The Modernist critic could hardly have guessed that this ‘tacked-up canvas’, for him merely a rhetorical possibility, would become an important touchstone for subsequent art practice, much as the monochrome had been for a previous generation of artists. The missing object and empty room have become Conceptual art’s degree zero, gesturing towards the conventions that ‘frame’ raw material as art and making room for the forms of openness, contradiction, paradox and irresolution that are contemporary art’s essential condition.
Found at https://www.perrotin.com/Gianni_Motti-works-oeuvres-28162-146.html
GIANNI MOTTI "Magic Ink" 1989 Ink on paper / Encre sur papier 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches (each) / 29,7 x 21 cm (each) Unique Invisible ArtD. N. Perkins Art Education Vol. 36, No. 2, Art and the Mind (Mar., 1983), pp. 39-41 Published by: National Art Education Association Despite the title might suggest this article makes no mention of invisible art being created. Only, I find the concepts suggested around lack of perception and appreciation, creating the invisible art to be intriguing. As this perception runs along parallels to the concept that I am looking at with 'The Little Boy'.
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