tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77163305470242139422011-08-02T14:35:22.982-07:00Christopher Gattonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03731843677530766557noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7716330547024213942.post-62473853898524546422010-10-28T13:52:00.000-07:002010-10-28T13:54:40.804-07:00This blogger account will no longer be used. <div><br /></div><div>www.ChristopherGatton.com</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7716330547024213942-6247385389852454642?l=christophergatton.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christopher Gattonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03731843677530766557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7716330547024213942.post-68213850839350792492010-10-28T13:50:00.000-07:002010-10-28T13:52:30.830-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FfnAvjjY0U4/TMniUGcUhoI/AAAAAAAAAUk/rQA713zOvpY/s1600/2vbjwhk.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FfnAvjjY0U4/TMniUGcUhoI/AAAAAAAAAUk/rQA713zOvpY/s400/2vbjwhk.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533202452156024450" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; width: 400px; ">November 6-28, 2010<br />Public Opening Reception: <u style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Saturday, November 6th from 6-10 p.m.</u></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; width: 400px; "><u style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><b style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><a href="http://monument2gallery.com/site/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Monument 2</a></b></u><br />2007 N. Point ST<br />Chicago, IL 60647</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; width: 400px; ">Artist/curator Andrew J. Greene, regarding this exhibition:</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; width: 400px; ">A FEW WORDS ON FORMALISM AND CONCEPTUALISM</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; width: 400px; ">2010, "Formalism"</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; width: 400px; ">Formalism = Conceptualism</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; width: 400px; ">Process and materiality result in historical mark-making. Mark-making becomes indexed and self referential, process and materials are arbitrary. It is okay to be beautiful.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; width: 400px; ">2010, "Conceptualism"</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; width: 400px; ">Aesthetic superficiality > Concept</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; width: 400px; ">Derived presentation methods and aesthetic modes dominate meaning. Art objects signify signifiers. Language is rendered as useless.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; width: 400px; ">Two observations:</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; width: 400px; ">1. Aesthetic "beauty" is okay.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; width: 400px; ">2. Use of language to interpret objects inhibits potential.</p></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7716330547024213942-6821385083935079249?l=christophergatton.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christopher Gattonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03731843677530766557noreply@blogger.com0