DanFlavin: Monuments to VladimirTatlinQuestioning the links between an artistic movement and a political ideology - Is Minimalism Capitalist an oxymoron? Perhaps. With this phrase Mounir Fatmi specifically refers to American Minimalism, a movement born in the 1960's in reaction to Abstract Expressionism, and particularly to Pop Art, an aesthetic considered to be the epitome of the frenzied capitalist consumer society and the "American way of life."
Minimalist artists such as Frank Stella, Donald Judd or Carl Andre, who appropriated the « less-is-more » theory as a rule, were influenced by and indeed connected to the political and aesthetic concerns of the German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a famous architect based in Chicago in the 1940's and who was often (incorrectly) associated to the "less-is-more" maxim, as well as to the Bauhaus and to the Russian Constructivists. History forced many Bauhaus artists to flee from Nazi Germany to the United States, bringing with them their roots of Malevitch and Rodchenko, the artistic supports of the Russian Revolution. Through such events, history can be understood like a "dynamic geography", a "rhizome of plateaus" (Deleuze), a short-circuit of the historical prejudices. These personal migrations, and with them, their ideas, are why many skyscrapers in Chicago or New York, the triumphant symbols of the capitalism, as well as the early concepts of Le Corbusier, are descendent from ideas of Russian Constructivism. This is also why Dan Flavin in the middle of cold war in America made a sculpture in tribute to Vladimir Tatlin. mmmh, cuánta confusión ! ¿incorrectly? ¿correctly incorrect? http://newsfeed.kosmograd.com/kosmograd/2008/04/juxtaposed-tatl.html
Minimalist artists such as Frank Stella, Donald Judd or Carl Andre, who appropriated the « less-is-more » theory as a rule, were influenced by and indeed connected to the political and aesthetic concerns of the German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a famous architect based in Chicago in the 1940's and who was often (incorrectly) associated to the "less-is-more" maxim, as well as to the Bauhaus and to the Russian Constructivists. History forced many Bauhaus artists to flee from Nazi Germany to the United States, bringing with them their roots of Malevitch and Rodchenko, the artistic supports of the Russian Revolution. Through such events, history can be understood like a "dynamic geography", a "rhizome of plateaus" (Deleuze), a short-circuit of the historical prejudices. These personal migrations, and with them, their ideas, are why many skyscrapers in Chicago or New York, the triumphant symbols of the capitalism, as well as the early concepts of Le Corbusier, are descendent from ideas of Russian Constructivism. This is also why Dan Flavin in the middle of cold war in America made a sculpture in tribute to Vladimir Tatlin. mmmh, cuánta confusión ! ¿incorrectly? ¿correctly incorrect? http://newsfeed.kosmograd.com/kosmograd/2008/04/juxtaposed-tatl.html
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si, pero de la depresión alemana a la euforia nort-americana (también trastorno bipolar mies-corbu) hay un desplazamiento bio-lento en la materialización de sus "ideas"... mies chupó mucho en usa, mientras su estudio & partners levantaba sus (eufóricas?) torres de metal pintadas de gris, parece que seguía bastante deprimido y fiel a su amado spengler-nietz-schopen-spinz. abz
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