Saturday, May 28, 2016

Re: [Yasmin_discussions] scathing review of Ryoji Ikeda's art project from CERN residency

Dear list,

I have not seen the work (I suspect the piece resembles other pieces by
Ikeda I have seen and liked), but a scathing review by Jonathan Jones I
would certainly put on my CV...

In my view he is one of these rather surprising cases (opera being
another) where it seems that art critics of the Guardian are just not
the right people to review anything conceived after the industrial
revolution.


not a very thorough response, I admit,

kind regards,

Joost Rekveld.





On 2016-05-27 22:13, Malina, Roger wrote:
> Yasminers
>
> Here is a very very negative review of Ryoji's Ikeda's art
> installation resulting from his cern residency
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2015/apr/23/art-respond-science-cern-ryoji-ikeda-supersymmetry
>
> Should art respond to science? On this evidence, the answer is simple:
> no way
> Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda's installation Supersymmetry is inspired
> by his residency at Cern -
> but signifies little more than that physics is weird. Isn't it time we
> stopped expecting artists to understand the complexities of science?
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2015/apr/23/art-respond-science-cern-ryoji-ikeda-supersymmetry
>
> this is very much along the lines of my colleague Jean Marc
> Levy=Lebond's book 'Science is not art' where he attacks
> much of the mystification of art science practice
>
> the review ends with:
>
> Art<https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/art> and science, we
> feel, should have something to say to each other. But perhaps they
> speak different languages after all. I don't speak the language of
> science too
> well, either, but I do know one thing: it is concerned with the wonder
> of nature. There is a depressing lack of wonder in this technically
> sophisticated but intellectually and emotionally empty art.
>
> would be interested in Yasminer reactions= has anyone seen the work ?
>
> roger malina
>
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