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"What does an artwork mean for you? What sense do you make of it? In the paradigm of contemporary art the answer is clear: it’s up to you. Constrained by the artwork’s subject matter (insofar as you can determine it), its material organization and presentation, and the information you can glean from the press release on what the art invokes or the artist’s “interests”, you respond to this configuration of mild injunctions. “Mild” because the parameters are open enough, loose enough, opaque enough for you to (have to) make your own way through the artwork. It asks you a question, making an open-ended assertion without definitive sense. You reply – usually not to the artwork but, in the best case, with a shift in your own system of ideas, values, even the very way you formulate your languages. You are the center of the artwork. Or, more accurately, since the artwork is not just its material being but also the sense that it makes and the values it inscribes, what is primary in contemporary art – its condition and horizon – is the art experience that is the transformation of both the subjective viewer and the artwork: "
"What does an artwork mean for you? What sense do you make of it? In the paradigm of contemporary art the answer is clear: it’s up to you. Constrained by the artwork’s subject matter (insofar as you can determine it), its material organization and presentation, and the information you can glean from the press release on what the art invokes or the artist’s “interests”, you respond to this configuration of mild injunctions. “Mild” because the parameters are open enough, loose enough, opaque enough for you to (have to) make your own way through the artwork. It asks you a question, making an open-ended assertion without definitive sense. You reply – usually not to the artwork but, in the best case, with a shift in your own system of ideas, values, even the very way you formulate your languages. You are the center of the artwork. Or, more accurately, since the artwork is not just its material being but also the sense that it makes and the values it inscribes, what is primary in contemporary art – its condition and horizon – is the art experience that is the transformation of both the subjective viewer and the artwork: "
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