{"id":32693,"date":"2013-12-02T19:35:40","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T18:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=32693"},"modified":"2013-12-02T19:35:40","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T18:35:40","slug":"paper-monument-4-dushko-petrovich-roger-white-eds-paper-monument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=32693","title":{"rendered":"Paper Monument 4. Dushko Petrovich & Roger White (Eds.). Paper Monument."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nPaper Monument 4.<\/em> Dushko Petrovich & Roger White (Eds.). Paper Monument.<\/p>\n

From the Editors<\/p>\n

Before the Earth was covered mostly in water, there lived a people who worshipped petrochemicals and spent vast sums of money on things called \u201cart objects.\u201d I kept revisiting this thought as I worked: these far-future humans, or maybe even post-humans, puzzling over this funny piece of sculpture\u2014which was now, thanks to my careful ministrations, almost completely free of water stains. It did somehow get me through the day.<\/p>\n

Spasm to Spasm
\nChristopher Hsu<\/p>\n

Even during my lifetime, the world, or at least its representation, has become clearly funnier. It\u2019s not just cultural products, films or TV or magazines, YouTube videos of men and women fist fighting on city buses; I mean that I myself, for example, and seemingly everyone I meet have gotten noticeably funnier. I feel an impulse to preface almost every remark in conversation with something light or even with an outright joke, as a sort of aperitif.<\/p>\n

Was Asked to Write About the Experience of Occupy Wall Street and Directing Light Onto Fist of Father
\nMPA<\/p>\n

can we begin at the energetic?
\ncan we all meet there?<\/p>\n

our beliefs are not our own.<\/p>\n

\u201cwe\u201d is quoted culture.<\/p>\n

Toward a History (and Future) of the Artist Statement
\nJennifer Liese<\/p>\n

Some are self-doubting, like Adolph Gottlieb\u2019s: \u201cSurrounded by my materials, canvas, paints, oils, brushes, etc. I feel like a relic of the past because paintings are still among the few things made by hand.\u201d Others process-oriented, as with Karel Appel: \u201cI make myself free, I stand aside, I squeeze myself dry. Then I am ready to begin painting.\u201d Some are droll: \u201cRembrandt is beautiful, but sad. Boucher is gay but bad. \u2018Great Painting\u2019 has never made anyone laugh,\u201d observes Jean Dubuffet.<\/p>\n

Painting Under Obama
\nJulian Kreimer<\/p>\n

Months later, as I wandered around the Bushwick open studios, it became clear to me that metallic colors had become (along with neon hues) major signifiers of the \u201cShwicky\u201d look: the blend of irony and earnestness that denotes, somehow, that the artist is aware of her impossible position in the world, simultaneously seeking ideal truths and the mythical rent of $1.00\/sq. ft.\/month.<\/p>\n

Resistant
\nMartha Schwendener<\/p>\n

Why would anyone who opposes torture interrogate painting?<\/p>\n

Painting Has Issues
\nCameron Martin<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to know what to think of all the paintings being made right now. A curator recently told me that he feels \u201cthe conversation\u201d is so diffuse, at this point it\u2019s next to impossible to talk about contemporary painting as a coherent subject. The heterogeneity of current painting production can leave us feeling deep in the potpourri, unable to separate the orange peel from the rose hips.<\/p>\n

Dear Yoko Dear Sierra
\nSarah Demeuse<\/p>\n

I decided to address my feelings in a personal letter to you because I need not only to get rid of my sense of guilt but also to tease out some of the issues raised by this type of exchange. (If you want, you can share this letter with Rivane.) Though I usually prefer email, I feel a letter is closer to the spirit and original context of your tree. While I long ago mastered the skill of writing profusely detailed expos\u00e9s to Santa, I am not experienced in writing to a famous artist.<\/p>\n

Humanimals
\nCaroline Picard<\/p>\n

Through the horse-blood infusions, Laval-Jeantet claims to have effected a shift in her consciousness in which she experienced the world as an herbivore: sleeping little, being unusually nervous. \u201cIn my opinion,\u201d she said, \u201cmy essence was not changed, but I was able to respond to an eternal frustration: I could finally feel Animal Otherness in me, outside of a purely anthropocentric point of view.\u201d Of the prosthetic cat device, she wrote, \u201cAs soon as I put them on and got used to this strange way of walking, the cats came up to me, sniffed and jumped on me, playing with me in the same way as they played between themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Portfolios<\/p>\n

William Pope.L and David Giordano
\nAndro Semeiko
\nMary Weatherford
\nPinar&Viola<\/p>\n

Price: \u20ac13.00<\/p>\n

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