03/2010, #77
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THE PAINTING ISSUE – NOT
The in-house working title for this issue of “Texte zur Kunst” was “Painting is Not the Issue,” alluding to how its articles make a case for a “painting beside itself,” as David Joselit put it in “October” 130. More precisely, this issue offers a theoretically and art-historically grounded consideration of a certain kind of contemporary painting practice. For this kind of painting, what is at stake is not the search for a fundamental essence of painting, as (defining) artistic medium, as specific genre or as symbolic institution. Rather, the practice we focus on here deliberately sets out to undermine the ostensible integrity of painting as a closed-off area of aesthetic activity. Informed by the legacy of institutional critique, shaped by the context of a long-since digital age, it engages with the economic, medial and discursive networks of which it forms a part, both in terms of production and exhibition.
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