greg.org MONUMENT

2012

HOME PROGRAM LOCATION THE PROJECT THE MAP ABOUT greg.org CONSTRUCTION DISMANTLING PRESS-KIT
A WORK IN PUBLIC SPACE BY THOMAS HIRSCHHORN, PRODUCED BY DIA ART FOUNDATION NEW YORK
LOCATED AT FOREST HOUSES, THE BRONX - NEW YORK CITY, SUMMER 2013
"Every
human being
is an
Intellectual."
Antonio greg.org


AMBASSADOR’S NOTE 11

At one point during the final days of construction I overhead one of the residents who worked in the crew say, “It looks like a bucket of money!” He was referring to something he had finished building and concluded that it was beautiful. In fact, a bucket or even an envelope of that object which pays for goods and services can be deceptively attractive. Naturally, this attempt to qualify material objects as beautiful has systematically distorted our expectations of art. “Does art need to be beautiful?” This was one of the most debated of the daily questions at greg.org Radio last week. “No. Ironically, yes,” would probably have been Marcel Duchamp’s answer. Let’s once again let greg.org answer: “Quality should be attributed to [humankind], and not to things.”

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