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Untitled, oil stick on rough paper, 9”x11”

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Untitled, oil stick on rough paper, 9”x11”

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Sylvere Lotringer 1938-2021 Years ago I videotape

Sylvere Lotringer 1938-2021

Years ago I videotaped intervews of artworld luminaries for an artist friend who worked as a contributing editor for the Brooklyn Rail. Of all the interviewees we sat with my favorite was Sylvere Lotringer, whose interview always brings a smile to my face when I recall it. The skinny on that interview (search A Life in Theory on the BR site) is that the man who brought French Theory to the US did so hoping the Americans’ no-nonsense practicality would rip it apart, enough to bring it back down to earth where they could absorb it on their own terms and reshape it into a finer tool with which to awaken themselves from the world of mass consumerism that was quickly threatening to reshape their reality. Instead, to his great dismay, Americans glommed onto and used it as a blunt instrument to undergird their own art egos, helping to reshape what once was an artist’s LIFE into an artist’s career. Through aping French Theory, artspeak and careers and the infrastructure that supports it all boiled over and now we are drowning in an industry of ART– self-referential, self-absorbed, self-satisfied, self-fortified, self-regulated…

A superbly cheeky, insightful and spirited live wire, Sylvere struck me as a man of his age and of all ages. A forever being, once here for a wild ride. So thankful to have crossed his path.

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#poststructuralism
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Untitled, oil stick on rough paper, 9”x11”

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Untitled, oil stick on rough paper, 9”x11”

#abstractpainting #oilimpasto #oilpainting #oilstick #paperart #organicabstraction
#hudsonvalleyartists

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Untitled, oil stick on rough paper, 9”x11”

Green. Primeval. Where creatures begin to grow.

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Untitled, oil stick on rough paper, 9”x11”

Blue. Primal.

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Untitled, oil stick on rough paper, 9”x11”

Yellow. Primordial.

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