This text shows work form artists such as, Roman Signer, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Felix Gonzalez – Torres, Robert Smithson, Mike Kelley and Carol Bove.
The text explores failure in a person and how failure is presented in art. It mentions nineteenth-century painter Benjamin Robert Haydon, who did not conform to the times normality due to his “partial-sightedness” and was deemed a “failed painter.’
“There is a pleasure in failure, and its potential, too.” – quote taken from text.
Roman Signer –
His accident sculptures are experiments to test ideas out, while keeping his research documented. In his work Small Helicopters (2008) a swarm of helicopters are set off, contained in a room far to small for them to move. This causes the helicopter to crash into each other and fall to the ground, a demonstration of trying to take off and failing miserably.
Punkt – 2006
Fischli and Weiss – The Way Things Go (1984)
The Way Things Go (1984) the film. It contains a series of objects getting knocked over similar to dominoes, the objects are moved with the use of fire, ramps, and wheels.
Honore De Balzac – The Unknown Masterpiece
The story narrates a failure of believe, reputation and art practises. The story follows an artist that focuses so much on the fear of failure and striving for perfection that they forgot what their painting was meant to look like, therefore creating a failed piece.
“Failure can open a wormhole through which one can travel to the past. If a recollection is represented as a perfect point-by-point double of the past, it is time travel without knowledge of the present. A memory of the past that has been tainted by the imagination is a process predicated on engagement: the past becomes filtered through the knowledge of the present.” – Extract from text
Dominique Gonzalez – Foerster’s De Novo (2009)
Text looks at Dominique Gonzalez – Foerster’s De Novo (2009) still.
I have also looked at work made by this artists before.
Felix Gonzalez – Torres – (Untitled) Perfect Lovers (1991)
https://www.tripimprover.com/blog/untitled-perfect-lovers-by-felix-gonzalez-torres
Carol Bove – Conversations with Luis Borges (2002)
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