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Formulation of Modern Art

  • Writer: Kal Ng
    Kal Ng
  • Apr 2, 2019
  • 1 min read

If we follow the reductive logic that anything can be art when placed within certain context, then the context, the set up, or the construct by which the artist select the object, or view to be placed is utterly important. Just like the making of a photograph, whoever have a point of view can point the camera and select and frame a slice of reality into a photograph, this photograph composes of the point of view of a certain reality, its artistic value can be high or none, all depends on how this photograph is being placed. In a way, when in the construct of the art show, this photograph, or any photographs taken by anyone can produce meaning simply because it consists of someone point of view at a certain space-time. This simple record can be made into a meaning as long as there is context. All the digital photos taken at the art show can be meaningful, at least to the person taking it, and collectively it is meaningful if treated as a record of our time, specifically a time that is represented by large scale art collection within a tight environment under a short time span of 3 days. The production of the art work and its meaning compressed into a 3 days event to constitute not only the meaning of the event but the art work themselves. The art object produced in the maker studio, if not being revealed to the world with an audience, it is still valid as an art work?


 
 
 

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