#browser art

When I went to the Wolfgang Tillmans show at the Hammer in LA I instantly coined a phrase I might be sick of already but “browser art” describes to me what Tillmans does so well in this exhibition which is to simply render how he moves through the world. Which stuff a hand or an eye might alight on, what kind of people do we like to look at... I like how political his (Tillmans’) work is too. One clipping -- and again he includes grabs from magazine texts etc. -- was someone talking in a piece about a la carte rights. How a culture might say freedom, yay, or modernism, uh huh, but for instance we’ll take out the gay part. I like it. A la carte rights is a term I can use. For some reason I just want to mention another German artist I like a lot. Imi Knoebel. He once described hiding in an attic during the bombing of Dresden and how the flashes of bombs filled a triangular shaped window in the room he was in and the experience contributed to his love of simple shapes. Is that love or merely imprinting. It was simple and strong and one is forced in a way to see the world the way it is shaped. Art becomes a memory more than anything else. A kind of chooser. It shows how we were touched.

‘Windows 93′ on the Web is weird indeed !