Art Intervening in Space: Art Creation in the Metropolis

Author: Gru
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This book presents its content in a conversational style to allow more people to understand the creative beliefs of contemporary artists, as these beliefs often open unexpected perspectives for us. Art is often misunderstood as being difficult to comprehend and disconnected from real life. However, in reality, this is often because our way of understanding reality is at odds with the contemporary world. For this reason, these works inspire us to rethink our understanding of the times and life. In this book, we will see how today's artists conceptualize works for urban or public spaces, and how their beliefs create new emotional and spiritual experiences in our daily lives. Examining urban art is essentially questioning its history, which means crossing the limited boundaries of art history to engage with the development of urban spaces and explore all their connections to art. Only in this way can we ask questions about public spaces, the role of memory, and the decisive experiences of encountering artworks. The encounter initiated by artworks is an artistic event, not a functional one. Thus, we can understand that this artistic encounter is concerned with our existential situation.