Following on from VoCA’s diatribe on the monumental last week – see posting HERE, we’ve found a little clip of Swiss artist (and VoCA favorite) Thomas Hirschhorn expounding on what he believes art to be.
Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn. Image: unipublic.unizh.ch
He obviously believes in the importance of art and treates it with a profound sense of gravity that comes across in his demeanour.
It’s a short clip – check it out HERE.
Hirschhorn recently showed his installation Hotel Democracy at Art Basel after a self-imposed exile from exhibiting in his home country for “political reasons”. Click on the thumbnail below to enlarge it.
Thomas Hirschhorn, Hotel Democracy, 2003. Image: art.ch
Thomas Hirschhorn is represented by Stephen Friedman Gallery – click HERE.
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Great clip, thanks for sharing. I agree with Hirschhorn, and note that he is with a commercial gallery, no?
Yes, definitely..
In the clip, Hirschorn says that he sometimes feels stupid or ridiculous when facing his own art.
I for one am not inclined to dissuade him from his opinion of himself.
As for ‘energy yes, quality no’.
I prefer, energy yes, quality yes.
he forgot to say “I think it is important as an artist to carry around large wads of cash”
“The most important activity that an art work can provoke is the activity of thinking.” – Thomas Hirschhorn
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