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s available via peter foolen s blogspot specialism the latest edition of open editions has just been published edited by david blamey this volume focuses on specialism and includes an essay by alistair rider titled the routine art tuesday june 16 2015 michael rouillard and jonathan borofsky many of the long term art projects explored on this site involve practices that are time consuming and labour intensive to produce making the dimension of process visible in the final product becomes very important because this alerts viewers to the artist s expenditure of effort some artists have recognised that their outlay in time and work can be powerfully conveyed to viewers when it is insinuated rather than seen in around 1968 jonathan borofsky started to count for several hours each day recording his progress on sheets of paper drawings occasionally interspersed the chain of numbers although the basic process of counting remained his primary focus by 1975 he had reached 2 346 502 which amounted to a stack of pages that stood 34 inches off the ground by 1986 he had got to 3 227 146 viewers can only see the top page of his vertical paper column and have to imagine the appearance of the millions of numbers on the sheets below the ragged edges of the pages as well as the small variations in colour come to stand in for the many hours a day that borofsky had devoted to his obsessive project over the previous 18 years michael rouillard has chosen to adopt a similar mode of display for his long term drawing project which he has called stacked pages the work dates back to 1993 and remains ongoing it involves covering sheets from a sketch pad with a ball point pen in order to ensure that the ink is distributed evenly across the entire surface he uses four pens in both hands and rotates the pages frequently working both sides once the sheets are completely covered in a sleek layer of ink they are added to a neat pile which is exhibited on a custom made steel shelf rouillard last exhibited the work in 2003 when it consisted of 43 pages although now there are closer to 80 the 2003 display specifically invited viewers to consider what the work would look like if they could see all inked surfaces at once arrayed side by side rouillard drew a line 3 feet from the ground which represented the height that the sheets would reach if they had been affixed to the white gallery walls from the floor up the effect is that his discrete pile of drawings seems to float on an imaginary high water mark of ink filled hours of expended effort sunday may 17 2015 life work if opalka s paintings are to be considered as details of a single work and kawara s date paintings can be similarly understood then the sense of a separate art object is loosened in spite of the stand alone highly crafted aspects of the two series the status of the art object is further undermined if the separate manifestations are part of an ongoing work an opus which is virtually inseparable from the course and conduct of a life the individual paintings become evidence of a life in and out of art in which the act of painting is central but only indicative opalka s insistence on the photographic self portraits which accompany the paintings and kawara s equal insistence on avoiding photography are both tactics for binding art to life for the one in the other for art as life or life as art in opalka s case the art is accompanied by an inevitable mortality that the photographs document while numbers are untroubled by time this is far from the case for the artist who paints numbers for kawara the absence of a photograph of the artist perhaps suggests the ineffability of experience of a life that stretches beyond any and every self image the inclusion of newspapers behind the paintings is an indication that art and life take place in a world in a political historical and cultural context while individual date paintings indicate a day in a life when any number of date paintings are placed together paintings and artist and world are inextricably entwined saturday may 9 2015 regula et vita in his study of monasticism the highest poverty giorgio agamben identifies this phenomenon as an attempt to bring together a rule and a life regula et vita to a point at which they are indistinguishable what is a rule if it seems to be mixed up with life without remainder and what is a human life if it can no longer be distinguished from the rule this distinction and near conjunction might be useful for our purpose here for just as the bringing together of rule and life was only imperfectly realised in monasticism so the artists we discuss will lean to one side of the distinction or another while buren charlton and toroni might be said to adhere to a rule as artists there seems little or no impingement of the rule on life for them art is seen as a separate matter from personal history or comportment for kawara and opalka there is a closer conformity between art and life and between a discipline in art and a form of life in both the religious and artistic context a third term mediates between rule and life the term work the monastics conform not only to a life of work and prayer but this joint life is itself a work an opus dei for artists of course work is the making of art and the art is specifically referred to as a work the artists mentioned here might have the distinction of being the first to conceive of a work as a single practice an opus a life long undertaking or discipline although commitment to a single art practice has always been rare and is increasingly so the bringing together of art and life such as we see in kawara and opalka brings their example closer to a contemporary concern for a practice of the everyday for art to reach into and transform the quality of contemporary life while artists are far from monastic although communitarian ethics are much in evidence a strong element in contemporary art does aspire to a practice of art in life towards an infusion of one into the other that might be without remainder giotto st francis preaches to the birds basilica di san francesco assisi sunday may 3 2015 versions of infinity in the bosco di san francesco at assisi there is a work by michelangelo pistoletto named terzo paradiso a grove of olive trees set out in a variation on the sign for infinity visitors are invited to participate in the work by walking on the path through the grove thereby duplicating or tracing the expanded infinity sign different as it is in form and intention this work by pistoletto offers an alternative notion of infinity to the one pursued for so long by roman opalka pistoletto s infinity is available by means of its sign and may be realised however briefly in following its course for him infinity is not an aspiration but a space of possibility the visitor who walks attentively along the path may enter a different condition pistoletto s olive grove is a device for accessing a paradisal renewal of creative possibility in contrast opalka s numbers move towards an infinity that never arrives a purely numerical and therefore impossible infinity in his long working life he never got any nearer to the infinite than in making his first canvas of course this is something of which opalka was perfectly aware his life s work may be seen as one long momento mori within which the distance between achievement and mortality could be kept constantly in view the numbers 1 and 5607249 are the most poignant in his work where is the place of the viewer in this enterprise we can watch opalka s steadfastness hopefully with sympathy we can understand from the start the heroic nature of the work with its built in certainty of failure for us too it can function as a reminder of mortality a great chastening example but we remain onlookers at a remarkable endeavour this sense of spectatorship is confirmed by the aesthetic qualities of the detail paintings the beautiful flow of marks across the canvas perhaps a legacy of abstract expressionism or tachism or lettrism in what is essentially a conceptual art the distance here is not that between infinity and mortality but between the skilled artist and the unskilled viewer or one might perceive a distance between the rigour of the concept and an inherited mode of execution the generosity of terzo paradiso is that pistoletto encourages us to participate in the work more directly we become co creators along the course of the path among the olives we walk in paradise to the two connected circles of infinity pistoletto has added a third circle the three standing for nature for culture and for a sustainable balance between them this to be achieved balance is the third paradise perhaps for pistoletto infinity itself needs augmentation by meaning and participation opalka s course is one of acceptance acceptance of the task at hand acceptance of mortality freedom or any possible happiness is to be found within the condition of things in faithfulness to the task and in denial of any possible freedom outside of the task or outside of mortality and the given to activate terzo paradiso you follow the olive path round an expanded infinity and then you step away from it into your own freedom monday april 20 2015 james howell a celebration the painter james howell passed away in october 2014 on april 17th his wife joy hosted a celebration of his life in his new york studio and home artists collectors family members and friends gathered to pay tribute to his work and life what is it about his paintings that makes them so compelling that obliges people to keep returning to see them again and again standing at a distance from one of his canvases we perceive an even gradation from a lighter to a darker hue the eye glides effortlessly across its surface a gentle controlled descent a measured glissando standing closer the rungs of the ladder that facilitated our movement come into view we see the gradations of the grey as horizontal bands these are the notes that make up the scale and as when an accomplished musician plays they are evenly and crisply delineated not over accentuated when two shades abut one another it is just about possible to acknowledge the shift we can see the difference but that task is made considerably harder when we try to compare one grey or range of greys to those of another painting holding a hue a tone in the mind s eye is hard it takes training yet undergoing the training is in itself a deeply rewarding experience who could deny that learning to see more acutely is a good thing the capacity to discern variation and diversity within a given field any field is always life enhancing james howell knew well that our eyes and our minds are endlessly nuanced resources and he gifted us the stimuli to keep us exercising our facilities repeatedly like lifting the blinds each morning as we rise from our slumbers these are paintings that renew and reinvigorate james howell s obituary susan morris sun dial night watch since 2010 the british artist susan morris has been wearing an actiwatch a medical device that collects data on the wearer s sleeping and waking patterns when connected to a computer this information can be displayed as a graph that exhibits the subject s periods of activity and rest over a twenty four hour period separate days are recorded along the horizontal axis and each vertical line reflects wakefulness over one day and a night black signifies sleep while red is a register of activity colours in between convey the relative proportion of activity to non activity morris has converted her sleep pattern actigraphs into large scale tapestries to do this she uses a weaving company in the low countries who operate computer guided jacquard looms each horizontal thread represents one minute of her days and a tapestry shows one year of her life susan morris sun dial nightwatch_sleep wake_2010 2011 several of her tapestries are now permanently installed in the john radcliff hospital in oxford uk having persisted with the project for five years morris plans to conclude the work later this year roman opalka voice recording roman opalka taken from the lp published by galerie rene block berlin in 1977 the artist issued four sound recordings over the course of his career and this one documents his counting progression past the number two million the recording attests to his extraordinary productivity during the 1970s it had taken him eight years to paint the numbers from one to a million he had started in 1965 and reached one million in september 1973 now just four years later he was moving into the two millions essentially he had doubled his pace of working at the guggenheim on kawara silence photo david heald solomon r guggenheim foundation the current exhibition at the guggenheim new york on kawara silence which runs until may 3rd is particularly strong in its emphasis on the wide range of the artist s long term practices the today series is afforded pride of place but the postcards the journals the faxes the maps and the calendars are also accorded considerable attention the outcome is an exhibition that accentuates the diaristic nature of on kawara s art interested viewers can move from vitrine to vitrine and find out a fair amount of information about what the artist was doing on any particular day we can learn when he woke up what he read where he went and where he was staying who he met and whether or not he chose to work on a painting that day as jeffrey weiss writes in his excellent catalogue essay the record keeping produces something that might remind us of a diary but it has a different status to standard diaries because it is more than mere documentation of events and actions that have happened instead the activities that the documents tell us about were initiated so that kawara could generate the documents diarists don t usually decide to do things so that they can write about them in their diaries unless of course they are interested in the literary and fictional status of their writings weiss approach to kawara is to encourage us to think harder about his narrative voice and the performative ways in which he chooses to narrate his life for posterity older posts home subscribe to posts atom introduction since the 1960s a number of artists for different reasons have taken the decision to repeat a single practice or to make one ongoing piece throughout their working lives the single road will explore the implications of this attitude and commitment curated by alistair rider thomas a clark artists and themes absalon 2 ad reinhardt 7 adrian piper 1 alain badiou 1 alan charlton 7 alison knowles 3 an introduction 4 andré cadere 4 andrei tarkovsky 1 andrzej gieraga 1 andrzej wajda 1 andy warhol 2 arnulf letto 1 art and life 1 artistic development 1 authenticity 1 barnett newman 1 bas jan ader 1 bernd and hilla becher 1 bruce nauman 1 carl andre 1 caro jost 1 cecilia vissers 3 dan flavin 2 daniel buren 5 dean hughes 1 death 5 dennis meier 1 dou...