Unfound art is of course the work no-one has seen. But it is also much more than that...
"What the work is, where it is, even, is up to the viewer to decide.
(But) That decision can only be made through gaining an understanding of a piece before encountering it".
The reason?
"I have always wanted to remove the 'lost' spectator from the art-viewer relationship. When you try hard to be explicit, which was supposedly the case with a conceptual piece,
it is frustrating for the work itself to be so mis-understood. But that the fault lies absolutely with the artist - for presenting work to anyone who walks
into a gallery - is something which has not been fully grasped".
At least, it's been that way until now!
Geoff Bunn takes art beyond what seem very tired conceptual dogmas. He reaches beyond the accusations of cold intellectualism and
takes us towards a revitalised existentialism: the object must first be understood, then the object itself is to be found
in the world. Our world. The idea being that the relation between artist/object/viewer once again becomes something real.
"Art is being hidden... Unless you know where to look I guess that makes it hard to stand and stare."
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