Went to Contemporary Arts Center over the weekend, checking out Zaha Hadid’s building in that bastion of progressive architecture, Cincinnati. Sol Lewitt is on the 2nd floor, and above that is “Space is the Place,” an exhibition that surveys a recent, widespread interest in space exploration in visual art, as the brochure put it. I dunno about art, but advertising is already there.
Jason Rogenes (above) makes rockets with styrofoam and mood lighting.
flattered to be included in your blog
but I have purveying interest and dogma that transcends my initial inspiration of scifi and styrofoam to a discourse on our contemporary life fueled by the need of technology and immediacy of consumption.
thanks
jason aka “the zone”
Dear “Zone”–You make terrible art. Whoa it’s styrofoam! WACKY! So. Much. Meaning. And florescent lights! Haven’t seen that one before. Let’s get the MoMA trustees on the horn!
The brainless pretentiousness of your “dogma” is why people hate art. Also, “purveying” is a verb, not an adjective. And anyway, you can’t purvey an interest. No idea what you were going for there.
Hey Rick, relax.
who hates art?
hey rick
don’t relax!
but if you have seen styrofoam and flourescent lights before it was probably me -cause I have making these things for past 12 years. When I receive strong reactions to my work I know must doing something right!
and yeah, who hates art?
J480N R063N38 (only my close friends refer to me as “zone”)
Puh-leeze. The strong reaction wasn’t to the infinite depths of your art, but rather the nit-wit rationalization of it. Your art simply makes me yawn–Sculpturally drab, spatially simple minded.
Oh and I should have said “makes people hate contemporary art.” I mean, jargon and non-sense are really what make stomachs turn. Curators and artists both hide behind it too much, and they should get called out for it.
Rick-
I actually don’t hide behind any jargon I just present my visions as they are… you get what you see. honestly I just have a love affair with these materials and have let my work speak for itself. I don’t rely on any artspeak to validate my artwork- artwork needs to be visually engaging- first and foremost.– importance, discourse, dialog that is for audience to hash out. Anyway I am not trying to sell you one or sculptures or convince you to pay me some attention.
There is a lot of crap out there and really interesting contemporary art comes from artists putting out their excrement digested from our contemporary life.
do you actually like any contemporary artists? do have any art hanging in your home?