Opening-Day Artist Talk: Sturtevant

Its been said that Sturtevant is the only artist who cant be copied—but she is best known for making repetitions of works by artists such as Joseph Beuys, Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, and Jasper Johns. She began this practice in the 1960s—some 20 years before strategies of appropriation marked the American art world of the 1980s. The brutal truth is they are not copies; the push and shove is interior movement; the dynamics are the jetting of representation, says Sturtevant of her work. Her intentions are to create space for new thinking, to trigger thinking.

During this rare appearance, the artist will discuss the philosophical base of this radical and influential work and the discourse on the imposition of our cybernetic world and the zip zap of our digital world with its dangerous potent power. Sturtevants Beuys Fat Chair is prominently featured in The Quick and the Dead, an experimental exhibition that considers the romantic legacy of conceptual art through works by an international roster of 53 artists.

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what are you looking for Kali999L? some kind of consensus? have power in the fact that you have an opinion, why do you need others to comment? To paraphrase you so you have some sort of believable reflection flying back at your self? I think Sturtevant is a powerful disruption in our facile world, I have been following her for a long time and think it takes a little more time to "read' Sturtevants work, than the time afforded to us by our culture. You can like it or not, that is your power.

[kali999L]

This is the worst person to even attempt to articulate herself to

an audience of any kind. Her work is overly conceptual and vague and is little more than a charlatan for more than 40 years. The Q& A segment is common in all her appearances. To whomever watches this, please comment if her charm is not indeed short lived and the ego and neurosis does not become quickly apparent. Good luck.