Orgacom believes that art and business can learn from each other and feels that the traditional separation of the practical things of the everyday and the useless things that belong in a museum is unproductive for both parties.
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The snapshot traditionally stood for the ineptitude of the family photographer, but also, in recent days more than ever before, for immediacy and authenticity, qualities which are valued highly by many young, contemporary artists.
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In these wall-works Colton took parts of the earlier half-scale model to support the new work, in a circular process reminiscent of the traditional play of sculptors, and perhaps, most recently, of Didier Vermeiren or Kirsten OrtwedÂ’s dialogues with moulds and casts.
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You see short street scenes in which a group of Staphorsters, women or children in traditional dress, continually flee from the film camera: those 'under fire' from the camera, turn, dive or run away, cover their faces; they do anything to get out of view as quickly as possible.
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He sketches a merciless picture of how, during the twentieth century, Western men and women progressively 'disencumbered' themselves of the onerous aspects of human existence: traditional standards and customs, social and family structures, sexual reproduction ... until, in The Elementary Particles, even death itself is finally banished.
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It wasn't that X was attempting to dissolve the object or that his aim can be neatly understood within a (traditional) conceptual framework, but rather that there are some aspects of this work (democratisation, rhythm, repetition, exposing of a root...) that, strangely enough through the affirmation of the object, somehow manage to cite conceptual tendencies.
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