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5/12/2008

Why are conceptual artists painting again?

the building, Berlin

Because they think it's a good idea. A series of talks and conversations organized by Jan Verwoert. Lecture 3 is entitled How to Drill a Hole Into a Hole. On hermeticism and the heroic in the conceptualization of art practice. This talk continues the discussion of the concept as secret, based on the observation of a crucial shift in the understanding of conceptualism: while many protagonists of first generation conceptualism, in a modernist tradition, insisted that conceptual art could be a transparent, straightforward and hence universially understandable language, we today encounter conceptualism as a hermetic idiom, an art of secrets.

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