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Also, this interview, because he is sort of fascinating. His sentence structure is somewhat pretentious, and he says the same thing over and over again. That being said, the meat of what he is talking about is an interesting lens to view what is interesting about art in the contemporary through. I like to view the art we make through the lens of a long view of history, and art objects as fossils that articulate our values and concerns for future generations. In that scenario, what do Huyge's objects do? They are made to be temporal. I find Simon Starling's work to be more engaging because he uses many similar conventions in negating the venerated art object, but he incorporates a sense of time, not just in the experience of the immediate viewer, but how the work itself changes over time.
http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/interviews/let-the-light-in-pierre-huyghersquos-first-us-retrospective-comes-to-los-angeles/
