Announcing my exhibition
Art rétinal revisité: histoire de l'oeil
September 4th - October 2nd, 2010
at
Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard
3, impasse Saint-Claude / 74, rue de Turenne 75003 Paris, France
Announcing my exhibition
Art rétinal revisité: histoire de l'oeil
September 4th - October 2nd, 2010
at
Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard
3, impasse Saint-Claude / 74, rue de Turenne 75003 Paris, France
: Towards an Immersive Intelligence: Essays on the Work of Art in the Age of Computer Technology and Virtual Reality
Letter from LONDON: RICHARD WRIGHT: Turner Prize 09
by Joseph Nechvatal
TATE BRITAIN, LONDON
OCTOBER 6, 2009 – JANUARY 3, 2010
published in the Feb issue of The Brooklyn Rail
Pop in Crises: Time Has Come Today
A review of 2 London shows: The 2009 Turner Prize winner Richard Wright (Tate Britain) and Pop Life: Art in a Material World (Tate Modern)
Viewing 2009 Turner Prize winner Richard Wright’s pareidolia-laced no title 2009 and Pop Life: Art in a Material World set in motion for me a set of considerations about the contemporary condition of art. Something prime is shifting.
I think I can sum it up by saying that the success of Wright’s large, but delicate, wall mural signaled to me the return of magical immersive thinking into mainstream art. This at the expense of the pop icon/logo celebrated in the Pop Life: Art in a Material World exhibit. Its gold, monochromatic (but kaleidoscopic) ground dominates over configuration. As a consequence, this visionary art produces an exciting all-over full fervor that needs to be interacted with imaginatively.
The music is an excerpt from "viral symphOny : movement 1 : the enthrOning" (28.10 min in total)
Joseph Nechvatal : original concept viral structures
Matthew Underwood : nano, micro, meso and macro structures
Andrew Deutsch : meso and macro structures
Stephane Sikora : C++ programming
Steven Mygind Pedersen : IEA project technician