These Rough Trade posts on my recent work were originally written for Henri Art Magazine. I was doing a series of articles on painting and the challenges it faces in the 21st Century. Since I haven’t been updating my page here I thought I’d begin with a new look and these two posts. Basically they [...]
Freed from the necessity of having to make narrow choices (as painters did) about what images were worth contemplating, because of the rapidity with which cameras recorded anything, photographers made seeing into a new kind of project: as if seeing itself, pursued with sufficient avidity and single-mindedness, could indeed reconcile the claims of truth and [...]
“The traditional fine arts rely on the distinction between authentic and fake, between original and copy, between good taste and bad taste; the media blur, if they do not abolish outright, these distinctions. The fine arts assume that certain experiences or subjects have a meaning. The media are essentially contentless (this is the truth behind [...]