Mooi interview met de dochter van Philip Guston die verteld over de ontwikkeling van haar vader:
Philip Guston: Flatlands – 1970
“At that time, he starts making drawings and little paintings of things: objects, books, bricks, shoes. And from these works, a sort of alphabet of images emerges, and he begins to work on a larger scale. The things begin to multiply, and suddenly he’s creating these huge canvases where he’s assembling whole landscapes and narratives and interiors, and also, around this time, there are the hoods.
In the wake of the tragic murder of George Floyd, the four museums planning this exhibition—originally scheduled to open in June 2020—decided to postpone the project. Many took issue with this decision, which was intended to give the organizers time to reframe the show in light of what one press release called the “urgencies of the moment.” Those urgencies figure within a long history, and they persist within an ever-shifting present. We are showing Guston’s work now in a different way than originally planned, yet we also aspire to more far-reaching and lasting change—taking a true, and hard, look at the building in which this art hangs, and the ways in which we care for our visitors. We also know we have not gotten everything “right.” The work of this exhibition is ongoing, much like Guston’s open-ended paintings themselves. Humbly and respectfully—with these paintings as our guide—we invite you to look, and reckon, alongside us.
There is nothing to do now but paint my life; my dreams, surroundings, predicament, desperation, Musa – love, need. Keep destroying any attempt to paint pictures, or think about art.
If someone bursts out laughing in front of my painting, that is exactly what I want and expect.
Bij Hauser & Wirth wordt zijn werk getoond, maar in de VS heeft men moeite met de clansmen in zijn schilderijen. In verband met de controverse die het organiseren van een retrospectief van Guston’s werk opriep in de USA heeft Artforum wat artikelen over verschillende kanten van dat werk bij elkaar gezet. Ook afgezien van de politieke kant van deze zaak de moeite waard!
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