Abstraction, architecture and the everyday in the recent work of Trevor Richards

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Title: Abstraction, architecture and the everyday in the recent work of Trevor Richards
Author(s): Barnes, Carolyn
Abstract: The French philosopher Jacques Rancière highlights the restricted basis of modern art, the idea of artistic independence framing all ways of making, seeing and judging art in modernity. Certainly, most theories of modernist abstraction represent art as something to be experienced in and of itself, but the idea that art should conform to a single possibility and direction collapsed decades ago. Current societies are formed around differentiation, diversificationand distributed systems, people’s sense of the specificity of their needs and desires increasingly driving contemporary society in contrast to the uniform, centrally-imposed standards and processes that emerged in modernity. Indeed, Trevor Richards’s current work shows that contemporary abstraction involves wide-ranging renegotiation of modernist models, leading to unforeseen, particular and distinct outcomes in the work of individual artists.
Publication type: Catalogue essay
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Design
Source: Paper appeared in the catalogue for 'Trevor Richards New Works', Turner Galleries, Perth, Western Australia, 31 July - 29 August 2009
Publication year: 2009
Keyword(s): Abstraction; Exhibition catalogue; Richards, Trevor
Publisher: Turner Galleries
Publisher URL: http://www.turnergalleries.com.au/exhibitions/09_richards.php
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