The test is the result of a conference organize in April 2013 at Harvard University, where the real impulse was the deep interest in the recent developments in painting inside one of the most relevant question around the concept of the "post-medium condition".
If painting as they claim marks time rather than intervening in the events that populated it, I'm asking (as well as them) if painting can be considered a subject itself, taking in consideration the aspect of the reproduction of images via our devices, which generate other concept of the same image, underlining the fact thst in the painting the MARKING SCORING AND ACCULATATION of time happen simultaneously, is alive, since happen in the time and in the air rathe than en plain-air.
It is also a form of SPECULATION, they wrote, as a way to think about ways of circulation of the work ones it enter in the world, along with the desire to spy, to force and observe….
Underneath the visible, as a blind touch
The common wish was to complicate and pluralize the very idea of the medium , in oder to challenge its monolithic articulation, questioning the idea of its linear progress and thus forestall any reductive tempations to define it, providing a conceptualing more nuanced and historcally more specific framework.
The discussion bring to attention the concept that painting could be perceived as a demonstration of how value is founded on something concrete, the living labour of the artist.
The value of the art commodity, and painting in particular, function in the opposite way, because labor is not hidden or obscured, as in the commodity, but emphasized and cultivated, forcing and heightening is aliveness…,where painting compresses live and labor time allowing us to perceive and experience both simultaneously, also because of the inner force of the material object, a presents liveliness….
The value of liveliness
Painting’s capacity to appear particularly saturated with the life and labor time of its author, while remain distinct from it, makes it the ideal candidate for value production in a new economy that is busy absorbing life...
New knowledge
>How the material can generate new significants into the current debate?
>Which aspect determine the core of the work, the intent, at the expense of other imbedded in it?
