I’d like to add this really smart quote from an interview with Alexander Brodsky: A huge portion of art today is made in accordance to the budget. One can invent whatever one wants, but not everyone has the money for the materialization. I can come up with insane things, but they could never be realized. Whether this is good or bad, it’s not clear. A large number of things - good and unequivocally strong - are made at the expense of enormous sponsor investments. While other things are made independently of everything, through easily available means, and the point is that the one is equal to the other. One can go dig up some clay from under his fence or one can do… well, it’s clear what. In all probability, if I had the opportunity, I would, out of simple curiosity, make a work with a monstrous budget. But I very happily, with an easy heart, make things which require minimal expenses. One can develop an aesthetic of “poor” art without being a poor man, one can create deliberately “poor” work - it can be connected, for example, with fashion. If I’m rich, then I can cover a skull with diamonds, or I can, even having the opportunity to do the latter, make something out of dust. It seems to me that one ought to distinguish between such things. Some things are done out of necessity, because only they are possible; and some things are done because the maker specifically likes to create “poor” things, to work in a povera way. Where I am, it’s hard for me to tell; probably somewhere in an intermediate phase. I can permit myself big-budget works among others, and my head is full of all sorts of different ideas, this and that. But at the same time, I can permit myself something mid-range. Besides, if one is not thinking about a budget, I simply love clay very much, unfired clay as a material - universal, beautiful, and pleasant to handle. Just how I like my women. ricekristinies: snowce: iheartmyart: Alexander Brodsky, Psychedelic Wagon, 1997, unfired clay, video projection Via Russian Povera

I’d like to add this really smart quote from an interview with Alexander Brodsky:

A huge portion of art today is made in accordance to the budget. One can invent whatever one wants, but not everyone has the money for the materialization. I can come up with insane things, but they could never be realized. Whether this is good or bad, it’s not clear. A large number of things - good and unequivocally strong - are made at the expense of enormous sponsor investments. While other things are made independently of everything, through easily available means, and the point is that the one is equal to the other. One can go dig up some clay from under his fence or one can do… well, it’s clear what. In all probability, if I had the opportunity, I would, out of simple curiosity, make a work with a monstrous budget. But I very happily, with an easy heart, make things which require minimal expenses.

One can develop an aesthetic of “poor” art without being a poor man, one can create deliberately “poor” work - it can be connected, for example, with fashion. If I’m rich, then I can cover a skull with diamonds, or I can, even having the opportunity to do the latter, make something out of dust. It seems to me that one ought to distinguish between such things. Some things are done out of necessity, because only they are possible; and some things are done because the maker specifically likes to create “poor” things, to work in a povera way. Where I am, it’s hard for me to tell; probably somewhere in an intermediate phase. I can permit myself big-budget works among others, and my head is full of all sorts of different ideas, this and that. But at the same time, I can permit myself something mid-range.

Besides, if one is not thinking about a budget, I simply love clay very much, unfired clay as a material - universal, beautiful, and pleasant to handle.

Just how I like my women.

ricekristinies:

snowce:

iheartmyart:

Alexander Brodsky, Psychedelic Wagon, 1997, unfired clay, video projection

Via Russian Povera
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