Three Trees
Künstler/in
Adrien Tirtiaux
(geb. 1980 in Brüssel, Belgien)
Date2009
ClassificationsGrafik
MediumCollage
Paper Support3-teilig
DimensionsRahmen je: 31 × 22,5 cm
Credit LineArtothek des Bundes
Object number27508
DescriptionThis triptych takes as a point of departure two cartoons made by Ad Reinhardt in 1946 and 1961, representing the art scene of the times on a tree. The first tree has lost most of its leaves, as I cut out all the names of the 1946 artists that I didn’t know.
I repaired the second tree, of which the institution only seemed to accept the social-surrealist branch in 1961, to Reinhardt’s big disappointment.
Eventually I tried to situate the artists of my own time (top 200 on artfacts.net) on a third tree, which with the end of modernity has lost both of its branches.
The triptych was part of Le Pouvoir de l’ellipse (“The Power of Closure”), a solo show at Galerie Martin Janda dealing with mechanisms of narration within comics and contemporary art presentation.
Text: Adrien Tirtiaux
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