Osvaldo Romberg

Author : Aaron Levy
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Total Pages : 230 pages
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Download or read book Searching for Romberg written by Aaron Levy and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book results from the Slought Foundation conference on artist Osvaldo Romberg, held at the University of Pennsylvania in Spring 2001. Contributors include: Gregory Flaxman, Alexi Kukuljevic, Reinaldo Laddaga, Aaron Levy, Robert Mahoney, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Osvaldo Romberg, Marjorie Welish, Andrew Zitcer. This means in some way (we must try) to sense again the pleasure of painting, to paint the painting, to try to define again and again in each work, what is the essence of painting. Art is unverifiable, we can merely approach it through exercises, which sometimes surmount their own limits and provides us with a mystique of expression if we are artists, and a mystique of perception if we are observers. - Osvaldo Romberg, pp. 129 "Rombergs work has passed through quite a number of stages, from the more analytic moment of the famously didactic chromatic value tables presented as so many "explicitations" of famous paintings, to a more synthetic and architectonic moment with the modelizations of churches and sacred spaces, and its dynamism has not stopped. Without attempting to foresee where it will go so as to expand and engage with our "post-medium" condition, to take up Krausss useful category, a category, let us note, elaborated in a discussion of a multi-media artist like Marcel Broodthaers, I would simply like to pause and stress the subjective position that both enables and frames this type of work. It is in this selfless or egoless egotism of the work as work that I can become one not with the artist, not with the Romantic myth of the genius, who from Picasso to Pollock still seduces once in a while, but with the work as it presents itself in its simplicity, purity and elegance. Then and only then can I "accompany" it, like for instance by humming once more, in a slightly lower scale: "Non.... Rrien, rrien de rrien, je ne rregrette rrien... Ni le bien, ni le mal, Tout ça mest bien égal! ... Et demain je rrecommence à zéro...." -- Jean-Michel Rabaté, pp. 54-55 "In the face of those for whom looking at formal art is either pretentious, meaningless, or both, it might be argued that Rombergs objects teach the lettered how to read a visual thing. For those who read, and are more comfortable contemplating literary rather than visual statements, conceptual art offers guidance in how to parse the image and attend to the implications of its grammatical undoing. Taxonomic schema mediate the verbal and visual realms of utopic knowledge, and Romberg answers Malevichs charting of form and style, Joseph Alberss charting of color, and Ad Reinhardts giving slide lectures on world art histories, by committing to spread sheets (or to the projected fantasies spread sheets would have) his anti-foundational analysis of art history. Though built, his artifacts are meant to be read, are made for those who engage knowledge in written form first." -- Marjorie Welish, pp. 16-17