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“The substance of the mind must therefore be material, since it is affected by the impact of material weapons.”
Lucretius, On the Nature of the Universe
Traditionally, matter has been conceived as lying in wait for a creator to come along and shape it. Whether emitted from God or a concept-mongering Mind, thought flows through an immaterial channel to give the world form. In the upcoming exhibition, four artists invert this picture by emphasizing the activity of matter in spurring conceptual change. Subjectivity is no longer something insulated from the physical world, but instead shown to issue from it.
One gets a sense for this inversion via the disruptive role materiality plays in relation to the exhibition’s various geometrical forms. The supposed purity of abstraction is ceaselessly worked upon by traces of physical production and decay. These traces speak to the perpetually...More
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“The substance of the mind must therefore be material, since it is affected by the impact of material weapons.”
Lucretius, On the Nature of the Universe
Traditionally, matter has been conceived as lying in wait for a creator to come along and shape it. Whether emitted from God or a concept-mongering Mind, thought flows through an immaterial channel to give the world form. In the upcoming exhibition, four artists invert this picture by emphasizing the activity of matter in spurring conceptual change. Subjectivity is no longer something insulated from the physical world, but instead shown to issue from it.
One gets a sense for this inversion via the disruptive role materiality plays in relation to the exhibition’s various geometrical forms. The supposed purity of abstraction is ceaselessly worked upon by traces of physical production and decay. These traces speak to the perpetually...More
