Rationale

The show aims at declaring the end of art in terms of the abandonment of otherwise traditional methods, materials and processes internal to each artistic discipline and thus renegotiating their very nature. Expanding the field of each discipline is the methodology of this exhibition, not the aim. What the show ultimately argues is that concrete definitions of artistic disciplines are no longer distinguishable in contemporary art and thus we have reached a stage where Salon type categorizations are no longer an effective approach to producing and more importantly understanding art. The radical renegotiation of the nature of art that was initiated in the 1960s has produced not only unrestrictive approaches to stylistic categorizations but has also led to the dissolution of clear distinctions between artistic disciplines. Yet, the show does not try to simply demonstrate ways by which there can be art after the ‘end of art’ and thus to seek for ways to satisfy Arthur Danto’s uncertainty about the future of art after Plurality. Rather, by remaining true to a conceptualist methodology each work deals solely with the nature of a given discipline and investigates the potential for an even more radical and potentially more thorough process of examination of the nature of art through interdisciplinarity.