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August Klintberg, Portal 3-7, 2020

August Klintberg

Portal 3-7, 2020
Encre sur papier de riz / Rice paper, ink
48 x 24 "
121.9 x 61 cm
Series: Portal
© August Klintberg
$ 4,000.00
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'The Portal suite, including the associated Folio series, served to create three photographs titled Proposal for monument, each of which offers a maquette for humiliated monuments to this complicated history....
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"The Portal suite, including the associated Folio series, served to create three photographs titled Proposal for monument, each of which offers a maquette for humiliated monuments to this complicated history. While cutting the pattern-piece-shaped stencils to create the Portal suite, I noticed that their contours, when piled together, resembled the sculptural work of Anthony Caro. Caro visited amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton, Alberta) and had great influence on a generation of sculptors working there; as a result, Alberta features many outdoor public artworks that are influenced by Caro’s modernist aesthetic. Proposal for monument flirtatiously mimics these antecedent works of art, suggesting that no monument can adequately reckon with this little-known history of a violent man murdered and those whose lives were forever transformed because of his hate. This also raises the question: should queer experience and identity subscribe to the grandiosity inherent in “the memorial” as a category, or are there other, countermonumental formats that could better reflect the subtlety of sexuality and its expressions? "- Mark Clintberg
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« La suite Portal, y compris la série Folio qui y est associée, a servi à créer trois photographies intitulées Proposal for monument, dont chacune offre une maquette de « monuments humiliés » à cette histoire compliquée. En découpant les pochoirs en forme de pièces pour créer la suite Portal, j'ai remarqué que leurs contours, une fois empilés, ressemblaient à l'œuvre sculpturale d'Anthony Caro. Caro a visité amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton, Alberta) et a exercé une grande influence sur une génération de sculpteurs qui y travaillaient ; en conséquence, l'Alberta présente de nombreuses œuvres d'art public extérieures qui sont influencées par l'esthétique moderniste de Caro. La proposition de monument flirte avec ces œuvres d'art antécédentes, suggérant qu'aucun monument ne peut rendre compte adéquatement de cette histoire peu connue d'un homme violent assassiné et de ceux dont la vie a été transformée à jamais à cause de sa haine. Cela soulève également la question suivante : l'expérience et l'identité queer doivent-elles souscrire à la grandiloquence inhérente au "mémorial" en tant que catégorie, ou existe-t-il d'autres formats contre-monumentaux qui pourraient mieux refléter la subtilité de la sexualité et de ses expressions? » - MC
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