Kenneth Goldsmith Interview: Please Do Not Touch
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- Опубліковано 28 лют 2018
- We asked Kenneth Goldsmith - a conceptual poet who believes that art and poetry can be found everywhere - to talk about a celebrated sculpture by Giacometti. Here is how he answered.
“The piece is almost a Monet of geometry,” says Goldsmith of the ‘Please do not touch’ sign placed at the foot of Giacometti’s sculpture ‘Homme qui marche’. The sign has the poet’s full attention and, with great enthusiasm, he describes all its details: “Even though it’s monochromatic, there’s a world of colour here.”
Kenneth Goldsmith (b. 1961) is an American conceptual poet. He has published numerous books including ‘Fidget’ (2000), ‘Soliloquy’ (2001), ‘Day’ (2003), a New York-trilogy consisting of ‘The Weather’ (2005), ‘Traffic’ (2007) and ‘Sports’ (2008) as well as ‘Seven American Deaths and Disasters’ (2013). Goldsmith also teaches uncreative writing at the University of Pennsylvania, where one of his classes in 2015 was the much debated ‘Wasting time on the internet’. Moreover, he is the founding editor of UbuWeb. In 2013, Goldsmith was appointed a MoMA poet laureate.
Kenneth Goldsmith was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg in connection with the Louisiana Literature festival at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark in August 2015. In the video, Goldsmith talks about the ‘Please do not touch’ sign placed at the foot of the cast bronze sculpture ‘Homme qui marche’ (Walking Man) (1960) by Italian Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art’s collection.
Camera: Klaus Elmer
Produced and edited by: Kasper Bech Dyg
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2018
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Not a particularly original joke, but I'm impress with how long he could keep going and with such an convincing and authorian tone
The glint in his eye
your suit is an artwork by itself, you rock Kenneth 😬
this guy should be a poet
"An ode the Kenneth Goldsmith"
Uh, what i like most about this is its a variation on primary structures its not a rectangle nor is it a triangle but rather uh its somewhere in between uh this is an impure primary form in terms of its asymmetry a primary form would normally have regularity and repetition but the sculptor has decided to break that form by putting a cut on the piece this is unusual also i would like to call attention to the mottled surface of the piece the very delicate handling of color even though its monochromatic theres a world of color here theres greys theres theres i even see blues reflecting off the ambient light the piece has an uh uh i would almost say a monet of geometry on top of that i find it breaks the symmetry and rhtyhm by the text being on the upper third rather than in the center now one would assume that the logical structure of primary structures would place that dead center as being the epitome of logic instead we have expression seeing as the text has migrated up the visual plane on top of that and as if to underscore that is this very delicate mark uh uhhhh giacometti couldve chosen to use a rule to make that but instead its the play of the hand acting like a geometric line that actually gives expression and human emotion to this piece i'd like you also to call attention to its front edge which is an expressive line as opposed to the back edge of which there's only partial expression there's a completeness to the black on the back of this it is broken not as one may assume a geometric sculpture would but its almost but not quite a third of the way as played off by the very delicate vertical lines that actually belies its construction not actually being a solid object but constructed of 123456 sections in this way it references the pinstripes of something like frank stella's protractor paintings which is uh probably intentional on the part of giacometti
Too good! 😄
Took a minute... so funny
"A Monet of geometry"
This is amasing :) really funny!
Hilarious 😸
wow he is blowing smoke out of his lower third.
lol
interesting, but i should say is a very bad camera work, don´t ad anything to the Goldsmith performance and frame him like he was important rather than the performance. excuse my english, not native language.
Lame