This symposium is an opportunity for artists\, writers\, curators\, students\, educators and thinkers to come together\, and question the relevance and importance of pa inting today. It will be an opportunity to listen to and discuss issues ari sing from various and diverse artistic positions represented by panelists\, in the context of the many concurrent painting exhibitions occurring throu ghout Vancouver.
Keynote Lecture
Isabelle Graw: The Value of Painting<
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When: Thursday\, September 28\, 7:00 p.m.
Where: Reliance Theatre\, Emily Carr University of Art
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Painting is usually associated with various aesthetic\, emot ional\, symbolic and economic values. In this talk\, “Painting” refers to a ll those (often non-painterly) artistic practices that employ the picture o n canvas in manifold ways. Graw will examine the commodity value of paintin g\, considering paintings as unique material objects that nourish a fantasy that their value is substantial and contained within them—valuable because of their specific materiality\, and because of the sphere of reception pai nting exists within.
Graw will argue that despite their materiality\, paintings can’t be reduced to their economic dimension\; although the luxu ry industry in particular has tried to learn from painting in recent years\ , painting’s intellectual prestige has been growing since the early modern times\, adding to their status as ideal commodities.
Isabelle Graw is a professor of art theory and art history at the Staatlic he Hochschule für bildende Künste (Städelschule) Frankfurt am Main\, where she co-founded the Institute of Art Criticism. She is an art critic and co- founder of Texte zur Kunst in Berlin. She has edited and contributed to man y important books on the medium of painting\, most notably Painting Bey ond Itself: The Medium in the Post-Medium Condition (Sternberg Press\, 2016) and Thinking through Painting. Reflexivity and Agency beyond the Canvas (Sternberg Press\, 2012). Her forthcoming book The Love of Painting: Genealogy of a Success Medium aims to establish where paint ing can be seen today and to reconstruct the historical origins of its curr ent popularity.
Isabelle Graw is a guest of the Goethe Institute. Her talk is made possible with support from the Audain Endowment for Curatoria l Studies through the Department of Art History\, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia.
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