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Claude Rutault - De-finitions/methods 1973-2016
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Publisher | Mfc Michele Didier |
ISBN | 9782930439068 |
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"Claude Rutault first used the term definition/method in 1978, and he put all his work under that generic title from then on, through the definitive change had come as early as 1973. In March of that year, he painted a small canvas the same grey as the wall, which gave rise to his iconic phrase: "a canvas stretched on stretchers and painted the same color as the wall on which it is hung." From that principle, he developed short, directive texts proposing specific works. They were first called constructions and then definitions/methods, which were later numbered. Each definition/method is a proposition to be actualized, in most cases by an act of painting that conforms to certain parameters controlling the relation of the canvas or canvases to the wall. They are based on the traditions of presentation, the history of art, and the institution of the exhibition. Rutault later extended the principle to include non-painted, repainted, and stacked canvases. A collector, either private or public, must abandon any fetishistic relationship to the work and choose the place and way to actualize it."Extract from Claude Rutault – L'Inventaire, Marie-Hélène Breuil, Mamco, 2015.
864 p, no ills, 25 x 20 cm, pb, English |