Boris Groys, Introduction—Global Conceptualism Revisited:
“I would argue that from today’s perspective, the biggest change that conceptualism brought about is this: after conceptualism we can no longer see art primarily as the production and exhibition of individual things—even readymades. However, this does not mean that conceptual or post-conceptual art became somehow ‘immaterial.’ Conceptual artists shifted the emphasis of artmaking away from static, individual objects toward the presentation of new relationships in space and time.
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(Via e-flux journal :: rss.)