About The Work
This Arakawa silkscreen and lithograph on Arches paper features stenciled and handwritten words, erasures and other marks to question the ways we perceive and the ways we make meaning. It was created as part of a six part series Arakawa did titled "NO! SAYS THE SIGNIFIED", published by the GraphicStudio at the University of South Florida, Tampa and printed by Multiples. Inc. This work is part of an important series that was the subject of a major lecture and exhibition at the Portland Art Museum in Maine. It is classic Arakawa–an important example of his way of displacing sometimes cryptic words onto images as a form of artistic philosophy and performance. The work bears both the printer and publisher's blind stamps on the lower left recto (front) and a copyright stamp on the lower right recto (front).
The text on the print reads as follows:
"The given describes language through training! To what extent? For example, what is the relation of the given to the acquired regarding perception? When in turn languages are used to describe the given or any of its aspects it seems that the mechanism process of meaning occurs. But to what extent? Can consciousness supersede its own mechanism (process) of focusing? If not how much of what seems to occur is nonsense?
Shape is used to plot sense, color to relate to quality of nonsense. A similar pairing can be found in any living room. "
Courtesy of Alpha 137 Gallery
About Arakawa
Lithograph and Silkscreen on Arches Paper with Deckled Edges.
22.50 x 30.00 in
57.1 x 76.2 cm
Signed and inscribed Artists Proof aside from the regular edition of 40.
About The Work
This Arakawa silkscreen and lithograph on Arches paper features stenciled and handwritten words, erasures and other marks to question the ways we perceive and the ways we make meaning. It was created as part of a six part series Arakawa did titled "NO! SAYS THE SIGNIFIED", published by the GraphicStudio at the University of South Florida, Tampa and printed by Multiples. Inc. This work is part of an important series that was the subject of a major lecture and exhibition at the Portland Art Museum in Maine. It is classic Arakawa–an important example of his way of displacing sometimes cryptic words onto images as a form of artistic philosophy and performance. The work bears both the printer and publisher's blind stamps on the lower left recto (front) and a copyright stamp on the lower right recto (front).
The text on the print reads as follows:
"The given describes language through training! To what extent? For example, what is the relation of the given to the acquired regarding perception? When in turn languages are used to describe the given or any of its aspects it seems that the mechanism process of meaning occurs. But to what extent? Can consciousness supersede its own mechanism (process) of focusing? If not how much of what seems to occur is nonsense?
Shape is used to plot sense, color to relate to quality of nonsense. A similar pairing can be found in any living room. "
Courtesy of Alpha 137 Gallery
About Arakawa
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