Tuesday, 12 Jan 2010
“What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn’t merely sensational, that doesn’t get its message across in ten seconds, that isn’t falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media.”
— Robert Hughes
A quote passed onto me from a wonderful artist friend back in Australia. And I think that’s what I feel is missing from a lot of contemporary art that I’ve seen so far here. Makes me yearn for home. Thinking of you S.
