Montag, 17. September 2007

Minimal Pyramid and Black box concept

For me one important aspect is, that the Pyramid project deals with the attitude of Minimal Art and Conceptual Art. Especially the work of Sol LeWitt could be seen as a great inspiration. He died on April 8, 2007 and the Pyramid will honor his work too. "Reducing art to basic shapes, lines and colors thus urging the viewer to open their mind - LeWitt helped establish Conceptualism and Minimalism as dominant movements of the postwar era. In 1967 he wrote an article in Artforum, stating “Conceptual art is not necessarily logical. The ideas need not be complex. Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable.” [Citation: gothamist.com/2007/04/09/sol_lewitt_1929.php]

But as you can see the Pyramid are not only about this, it is a open concept, think about art and society. My special interests are the meanings from the memorial or tomb stones as a "black box" concept. The former coffin or urn as a black box (also see Peter Sloterdijk: Der ästhetische Imperativ, 2007) and the new virtual Pyramid stones as a lucid black box extension in the Web.

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