tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post7667591157061808826..comments2024-03-26T10:07:14.049-04:00Comments on Painting: Mugar and Pollaro at the Bromfield, Boston Jan 30-Feb 23 Martin Mugarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12799696151828817646noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-10135794513529517352018-01-03T10:19:30.366-05:002018-01-03T10:19:30.366-05:00Another interesting artist who passed away last ye...Another interesting artist who passed away last year!!Martin Mugarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12799696151828817646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-26778376360659039912014-05-25T21:06:17.150-04:002014-05-25T21:06:17.150-04:00I came across some writing by Boris Groys where he...I came across some writing by Boris Groys where he makes a distinction between the abstraction of Mondrian and Malevich. Malevich was seeking a language according to him that would not look back at the metaphysics of the past but would be a perfect vehicle for the future world of technology and the state(communism). Mondrian works from out of the past in his reduction of the perceptual world as in the series of the apple tree and the cathedral. He drags along notions of spatial structure, push and pull and warm and cool. I think what is tricky about these zombie artists is that they look like they have their origins in Mondrian but are really embracing the inert absolutism of Malevich.Martin Mugarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12799696151828817646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-26702334706741014582013-11-15T08:34:55.806-05:002013-11-15T08:34:55.806-05:00I just posted this on Robert Linsley's blog:
...I just posted this on Robert Linsley's blog:<br /><br />I was thinking lately about Richter in terms of the timelessness of his work. By that I don’t mean the timelessness that would be used to describe the neoplatonic art of the early Renaissance but rather a lack of time. Haacke’s closed system has a sort of circular time.It is as you say a closed system that keeps repeating two different states of being.Similar to Stella’s “Zambezi” that you commented on in another post that to my eye draws the eye in and out in a constant repetition. Richter’s painting is just one event that cannot circle back like Stella’s and although his works literally hold up, they risk and do at times descend into pure materiality. This embrace of the material results in what I would call art that is “time poor” to transpose a Heideggerian notion of “world poor”. This applies to the work of someone who appears to be a Richter neophyte,Dan Colen at Gagosian. I wrote about Richter and Stella on the occasion of last winter’s show of my work with Pollaro in Boston where I talk about the materiality of Richter but this notion of time is new and I think relevant to the understanding of his work.http://newabstraction.net/2013/11/13/symmetry/#comment-11879Martin Mugarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12799696151828817646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-28204584782830265832013-01-23T15:45:39.655-05:002013-01-23T15:45:39.655-05:00Dear Carl,
It means a lot to have your supportive...Dear Carl,<br /><br />It means a lot to have your supportive comments.<br /><br />MartinMartin Mugarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12799696151828817646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-39358856437937442772013-01-23T14:27:22.171-05:002013-01-23T14:27:22.171-05:00Another thoughtful and engaging essay, Martin, muc...Another thoughtful and engaging essay, Martin, much appreciated here.Carl Belznoreply@blogger.com