Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Giorgio Griffa at Bergen Kunsthall

Giorgio Griffa at Bergen Kunsthall
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What is perhaps important about Griffa is that despite the ledger like accounting of marks, like most Povera, it provided a contingency to Minimimalism index and auto-reflexivity, projecting a trajectory outside literalist theater without a return to expressionism, keeping their hands that Minimalism sought to cut off. A materialism waiting around looking pretty for its 2012/13 "rediscovery" coinciding with the gentle turn in abstraction and Columbia sponge painting that looked so much like it, coming back again just way more soft, but at least someone "remembered" it.