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JILL SILVERMAN VAN COENEGRACHTS, FOUNDER JSVCprojects
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UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ,
KING & KING
A new sculpture
Installed in the United States
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
SAVE THE DATE
BAD+
July 6-10 2022
HANGAR 14
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
LINDA KARSHAN
Backstage filming ‘Two Feet Walking’
By Ishmael Annobil, Filmmaker
In response to the architecture of Murray Edwards College
Cambridge University
8th April 2022
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A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
HELMUT FEDERLE
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
BENEDICTE DELAY WITH JASON BUTLER
‘ONE ON ONE’
Exhibition at ArtHouse Jersey
14 April – 2 May 2022
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NATURE NOTES:
HELLO TO SPRING, PARIS
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
A WALKED DRAWING, ‘TWO FEET WALKING’,
By Linda Karshan
In collaboration with Filmmaker, Ishmael Annobil
In response to the architecture of Murray Edwards College,
University of Cambridge
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ISHMAEL ANNOBIL, 'INSOMNIA'
Coming soon at L'Interstice, Arles
Opening on April 15, 2022
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
JASON BUTLER, ‘ONE ON ONE’
Launch new ArtHouse exhibition space
Jersey, England
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ART & LANGUAGE, "THESE SCENES", 2016
Acquired by Centre Pompidou
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ
Bauhaus-Museum,
Weimar, Germany
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
LOSING DAN GRAHAM
1942-2022
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
THE DEVELOPMENT OF BAD+
BORDEAUX + ART + DESIGN
New dates: July 6-10 2022, at HANGAR 14
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
2000 THANK YOU NOTES
7 February 2022
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
NEW SPACE FOR JSVCPROJECTS
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ROBERT STONE
Debut with Haines Gallery at FOG Design + Art 2022
San Francisco, CA
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
MISCHA KUBALL
nolde / kritik / documenta
A project by documenta archiv, Draiflessen Collection and Mischa Kuball
NEW DATE: FALL 2022
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UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2022!
WARM WISHES AND NEW ADVENTURES
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
MINYADES
An exhibition of paintings by Richard Höglund
The Bonnier Gallery, Miami
December 2021
A Catalogue Essay
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
MISCHA KUBALL
ReferenzRäume
Museum Morsbroich
5 December – 24 April 2022
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ABOUT THE TREES
Thanksgiving 2021
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UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
THE WORLD MAP
Thanks to Mr Hide
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
KOEN VANMECHELEN LABIOMISTA, GENK (BELGIUM)
The book launch and debate
“NOT TO BE MISTAKEN”, November, 4th
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
OCTOBER 2021
"Linda Karshan: The Covid-19 Conversation"
Still in the limelight
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND
POSTSCRIPT PARIS
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND III
Out of the oven
Warsaw Sept 28-Oct 3
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
HELMUT FEDERLE
NOVARTIS Campus – Forum 3, Basel
DIENER & DIENER - WIEDERIN
2005
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
BETWEEN LISTENING AND TELLING
Esther Shalev Gerz
Nuit Blanche Paris,
Tonight
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UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ART BASEL HALL 2.0C1
René Schmitt and ART & LANGUAGE
THESE SCENES, 2016
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
MISCHA KUBALL
Wolfsburg and Utopias
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND
A new expedition on the CERAMIC & FOOD ROUTE
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND
A new expedition on the CERAMIC & FOOD ROUTE
Bright blue and white ceramics fill the dining room with warmth and visual appeal
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND
A new expedition on the CERAMIC & FOOD ROUTE
Starts today in Warsaw through 3 October
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ
SUMMER IN PARIS
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UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ON THE ROAD AGAIN
ARCO MADRID,
1st Art Fair in 2 years
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UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
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UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
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UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
IN THE ARTIST'S STUDIO
JASON BUTLER "THE COLLAGES"
Pop-Up Exhibition, Jersey
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STILL BEHIND THE SCENES:
NINA NOWAK'S EXHIBITION
Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
PER KIRKEBY UNREALISED BRICK PROJECTS
Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen
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NEW ARRIVALS:
MISCHA KUBALL
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A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
HELMUT FEDERLE NIETZSCHE-HAUS SILS-MARIA
Schwabe AG Basel, 2004 Peter André Bloch & Jan Thorn-Prikker
on the occasion of Helmut Federle's "Edelweiss im Nietzsche-Haus, Sils-Maria" exhibition in Nietzsche's Haus, Sept 2004 to July 2005
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
L'INTERSTICE ARLES OPENING
JOSETTE SAYERS AND GUILLAUME ZUILI'S PHOTOGRAPHS
Brave and fearless
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
CONGRATULATIONS ISHMAEL ANNOBIL
DIRECTOR for "LINDA KARSHAN: COVID-19 CONVERSATION"
WINNER BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY AT MYKONOS INTL FILM FES
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
THE LAUNCH OF REAL TIME AND THE 3BS
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
FLOWERS OF PERHAPS
LIOR GAL
ENGELS PLEIN, LEUVEN BELGIUM
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
MATHILDE BRETILLOT DESIGNS NEW MUSEUM FOR LA MANUFACTURE DE GIEN
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THIS TIME TWO YEARS AGO:
DRAW ART FAIR, LONDON, 2019, DESIGNER MATHILDE BRETILLOT AND ARCHITECT MISKA MILLER-LOVEGROVE
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NEW ARRIVALS:
WETTERLING, STOCKHOLM
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A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
HELMUT FEDERLE
ABSTRACT PAINTING OF AMERICA AND EUROPE
Ritter Verlag, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, 1988
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
LUKAS HOFFMANN, CNAP ACQUISITION AND TWO EXHIBITIONS
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ, WEFRAC 2021
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
"LINDA KARSHAN: COVID-19 CONVERSATION"
selected by Nawada and Hollywood Boulevard Festivals
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ
CNAP ACQUISITION,
"Describing Labor", 2012
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
A STUDIO VISIT WITH DEANNA PETHERBRIDGE
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
JSVCPROJECTS & INTERNATIONAL DESIGN EXPEDITIONS
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
HELMUT FEDERLE IN NEW YORK
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
RICHARD MILAZZO OBSZINE #3
The Sadness of Bad Thinking
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
RICHARD MILAZZO OBSZINE #3, ART, POETRY, AND THE PATHOS OF COMMUNICATION,
The Art of Impeachment
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
WITH POET/CURATOR RICHARD MILAZZO
REVISITING OBSZINE #3
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A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
POETRY IN SEDITIOUS TIMES
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HAPPY NEW YEAR AND SOUVENIRS FROM 2020!
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A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
DECEMBER 31, 2020
JASON BUTLER'S EXHIBITION
Meyer Schapiro, “Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist and Society
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
LIOR GALL, BRUSSELS, 2020
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HIGHLIGHT:
LOVE LETTERS
A new participative project by artist Koen Vanmechelen
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
LINDA KARSHAN AND THE BROOKLYN RAIL
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
NOVEMBER 2020, LINDA KARSHAN
The Covid Conversation, A New Film
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A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
PARIS, NOV. 6, 2020
ABËTËI by Ishmael Fiifi Annobil
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
MATHILDE BRETILLOT
Designs new offices for Parfums de Marly, Paris
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
BERLIN STUDIO VISIT - LUKAS HOFFMANN
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
BERLIN
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
GALERIE NÄCHST ST. STEPHAN ROSEMARIE SCHWARZWÄLDER, VIENNA
Friederike Mayröcker, Curator Hans Ulrich Obrist - until 10 Oct
Schutzgeister/Guardian Spirits
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
JSVCPROJECTS AND KOEN VANMECHELEN
The Battery Channel Podcast
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ARTISTS IN THE STUDIO, JERSEY
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
MANIFEST OF THE TRUE
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A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
3 LOVE POEMS IN THE SUMMER
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
SUMMER NEWS
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ROD MENGHAM,
Awarded the Cholmondeley Award for Poets
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
JILL SILVERMAN VAN COENEGRACHTS RECOMMENDS
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
LINDA KARSHAN
Studio visit
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
STEFANO CIGADA,
"Frammenti" at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere
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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2020!
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
PER KIRKEBY,
"Brick Sculptures"
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO PUGLIA
"Ceramic & Food Route",
Recent Summer 2019 Highlights
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JSVC HIGHLIGHTS:
ART & LANGUAGE, LONDON
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
DRAW ART FAIR LONDON
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ART & LANGUAGE, EXHIBITION AT GALERIE MICHAEL JANSSEN, Berlin
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
DR. SUSANNE A. KUDIELKA,
Private art collecting is a passion
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
KOEN VANMECHELEN
“It’s About Time”
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
DAYDREAMING WITH STANLEY KUBRICK,
Exhibition at Somerset House, London
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A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
DECEMBER 31, 2020
JASON BUTLER’S EXHIBITION
Meyer Schapiro, “Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist and Society
December 31st 2020
Jersey exhibition kindly hosted at a private residence by ArtHouse Jersey
PART I
The year finishes tonight. I look back at all we have come through. Instability underpins a quiet nerve-wracking uncertainty. Maniacs in office, political certainties cast adrift, a virus overwhelms our human community everywhere. There is no safe place, unless you just stay home, like a snail in its shell. Ha-ha-ha, I say everyday outsmarting the virus, I just won’t go anywhere. I will live in my shell with Zoom as portal to the world.
But we know this is unsustainable.
I look back tonight at so much loss amidst collective strength; how do we look at the climbing figures and make sense of this anymore. Yes, we go out and glance one to another over our face masks trying to read a smile, or catch a reassuring furrow that says, hold on, lets keep our heads up. Do not give in to fear, grief, and the diet of reactionary lies floating like seaweed across airwaves.
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We eat podcasts like candy; follow self-help webinars that promise new businesses for us all on social media. We meditate. We do online yoga and ballet. We take a business coach. To keep from being pulled under this dark crashing sea of “nothing being the same again;” looking for safety somewhere new – within perhaps if you believe the wisdom traditions, or thankfully in art.
PART II
You recall my commentary about Jason Butler’s sumptuous abstract paintings in the Summer back in our studio visit. At the end of this fraught year he finished a body of work. This has not been easy, not at all. How can something so captivating be difficult you might ask?
In this arduous moment a new body of paintings give me hope. When he sent me the installation views of this group of paintings now out of the studio – I was so elated as if they were like a child being sent off to a first overnight at a friend’s house. You wonder, how will they hold up in a new environment, under objective scrutiny?
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It was a happy moment, more than that I was delighted to see the paintings in the living room of a neutral space. Holding their ground with bold determination and verve. They spoke in a language that was as loud and clear as the architectural surroundings, like a person striding into a party with charisma everyone sees in a first moment. You have seen them in the studio months ago, but now they are something powerful and forthright. Independent and not part of the artist any more, they exist on their own terms.
Which made me today look into my library for help unpacking their possibility, thinking as well about the loss of Barbara Rose, a brilliant writer, thinker, a colleague and friend who loved painting. But I will save this for another time. Today I reached for the art historian Meyer Shapiro and the 4th volume of his collected writings On Perfection, Coherence, and Unity of Form and Content. Some of you may think his writing is outdated but he can take apart the visual field like few others. His teaching a generation of young men at Columbia influenced two old friends whose work I esteem and know from that time in New York during the 70’s, writers Sanford Schwartz and Nicholas Fox Weber.
PART III
“Content and form are plural concepts that comprise many regions and many orders within the same work. The vagueness of the form-and-content usage is due to the failure to specify in which region the connection or the unity lies. In any work, form and meaning cover several layers and scales of structure, expression and representation. Line, mass, space, color, dark-and-light constitute different orders in painting, as do words, actions, characters, and the large sequence of narrative in a play or story. Besides, within each of these aspects of the work are elements and characteristics that belong to the style of the time, others that are personal, and still others that are unique solutions for the particular work. To disengage these in their contribution to the content, even to interpret their expression, is beyond the power of an immediate apprehension of the whole.”
Meyer Schapiro, Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist and Society, published in 1984 by George Braziller, New York, p. 43.
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“I have argued that we do not see all of a work when we see it as a whole. We strive to see it as completely as possible and in a unifying way, though seeing is selective and limited. Critical seeing, aware of the incompleteness of perception, is explorative and dwells on details as well as on the large aspects that we call the whole. It takes into account others’ seeing; it is a collective and cooperative seeing and welcomes comparison of different perceptions and judgments. It also knows moments of sudden revelation and intense experience of unity and completeness which are shared in others’ scrutiny.”
Meyer Schapiro, Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist and Society, published in 1984 by George Braziller, New York, p. 49.
So here Shapiro invokes this process of “others’ seeing.” Which is what takes the painting from the personal space of the studio into this other communal realm where it lives or dies on its own merits. Again it is the multitude that sees it, that looks for whatever coherence might be on offer.
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PART IV
In the case of Jason Butler’s works we have clarity in public view. Anytime we may experience this it has a homeopathic affect on us, makes the breath a bit easier, the sense of safety almost tangible in an instant. We are on stable ground for the moment the order and language of the painting washes through us as nothing else possibly can.
As 2020 comes to a close I can think of nothing more beneficial for the soul than to witness art do what we need it to do – which is to assuage the pain of our collective human condition. Right now, it is our last hope it seems to me. I am grateful for its power; grateful to be part of a community that holds its inherent values and content so dear.
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We are the lucky ones—I have said several times in the past week watching this year come to an end—with the hope of seeing my soon-to-be-90 year old mom again amidst the raw crazed commotion of four generations beneath one roof. She is stoic and sage, not betting on next year for Thanksgiving yet. That is another subject and one that wants to project into the future a sense of certainty again.
But Jason Butler’s spontaneous exhibition remind us that light and color are fleeting, bombastic if we are lucky, restrained if we are calm but fundamentally unpredictable. And for this they seem an apt end to the year, and my inspiration alone here in Paris in my library with art, friends, and colleagues in my head welcoming 2021 with a sense of relief and trepidation. We have made it gratefully this far to see another day.
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