The Future of Art: Tobias Rehberger, Part 19/21

Ingo Niermann with Erik Niedling
The Future of Art: A Manual
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With guidance by Thomas Bayrle, Olaf Breuning, Genesis and Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge, Olafur Eliasson, Harald Falckenberg, Boris Groys, Damien Hirst, Gregor Jansen, Terence Koh, XXX, Marcos Lutyens, Philomene Magers, Antje Majewski, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Thomas Olbricht, Friedrich Petzel, and Tobias Rehberger; and commentary by Chus Martínez
In 1831 Honoré de Balzac wrote a short story, "The Unknown Masterpiece," in which he invented the abstract painting. Almost 200 years later, writer Ingo Niermann tries to follow in his footsteps to imagine a new epoch-making artwork. Together with the artist Erik Niedling he starts searching for the future of art and, seeking advice, meets key figures of the art world.
Including the DVD The Future of Art by Erik Niedling and Ingo Niermann (HD, 157 min.).
Design by Judith Banham, Middlecott Design
September 2011, English
14 x 20 cm, 320 pages, 37 b/w ill., softcover
ISBN 978-1-934105-63-4

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this made me think a step beyond the normal issues of authorship and the artist v audience relationship. I am not too familiar with this artist's work (yet), however I am swirling in discourse with myself (yes, that is legitimate, given the identity within the self is forever barred by the other) over this idea that an audience may somehow taint art .. objects or otherwise. this is perhaps better exemplified with music in that a song written and recorded for a specific person as a personal gift can lose it's intimacy and importance if played for a massive audience that has no connections n to its lyricallity- but the main point that struck me is how the amount of exposure certain canvases have received can affect their value in both cultural and private/collection ternswhen you look at the history of contemporary art/c painting i.e. there are more than a few J M Basquiat paintings which have become almost cliché information for young painters in university settings, while some work that is perhaps better as neoexpressionism goes are lost to the text.

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He looks like Lars von Trier.

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Einfach nur peinlich!