There is a catastrophe within contemporary art. What I call the -optically correct- is at stake. The vision machine and the motor have triggered it, but the visual arts haven't learned from it. Instead, they've masked this failure with commercial success. This -accident- is provoking a reversal of values. In my view, this is positive: the accident reveals something important we would not otherwise know how to perceive.-- Paul Virilio, The Accident of ArtUrbanist and technological theorist Paul Virilio trained as a painter, studying under Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Bazaine and de Stael....
There is a catastrophe within contemporary art. What I call the -optically correct- is at stake. The vision machine and the motor have triggered it...
