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A Catalogue of Rare Movements by Monica McFawn & Curtis A. Rhodes
from the introduction:
Making art is hard. The empty page or canvas seems limitless and
glorious, one of the few places where anything can happen. But the
moment a word is written or a mark made, what can happen is
suddenly—violently—limited. A line is a barrier, and words silence all
other words that could have been said. To commit to a course of action
in art is, paradoxically, to commit to not-doing the infinite anything
else. Making art is the bold relinquishing of possibility.
In the larger world of art, every art movement is a theory of how to
get free—how to get free of the influence of earlier artists, how to
get free of public expectation, and how to get free of the limitations
of what one has already done. In the insular world of this Catalogue,
each of our art movements likewise describes how a drawing tried to
transcend itself. The following work is an example of what can happen
within, or as a result of, narrow constraints. Each drawing was
created using a strict set of rules: they were collaboratively drawn
with the same pens, using a postcard-sized rectangle as a starting
point. The box is the first limitation, the other person’s
contribution another.
Within this insular process, the subtitles, deviations, and variations
took on particular import. A Catalogue of Rare Movements depicts
twenty-four art movements that flourished and flared out in this tight
space of possibility. Xerolage 42- Monica McFawn & Curtis A.
RhodesEach drawing itself became a theory of art, rising up and
burning out within the course of its creation. But by the time each
art movement was identified, it was already obsolete, and only another
drawing could get us free of it.
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