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Matthew Ritchie in “Structures” - Season 3 | “Art in the Twenty-First Century"

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    MATHEW RITCHIE: Modern art is a gift.
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    Take it or leave it, you know.
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    It's like nobody's forcing it down your
    throat.
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    All anyone is trying to do is try out some
    new ideas,
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    something different, something, you know..
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    just ringing the changes a little while.
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    And I think there's something
    enormously ambitious
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    about that idea, that we're all trying
    to advance
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    or at least question what's going on,
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    and I just think that's great.
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    Drawing is very, very central to the way
    that I work
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    because it can be blown up, taken apart,
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    given to another person to execute,
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    put into a computer,
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    redrawn as if the computer had thought of
    your drawing
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    in the first place,
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    shrunk back down to a tiny sketch,
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    turned into a digital game.
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    You can just keep on pushing it.
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    It's like this infinite machine,
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    which is very hard to do with almost
    anything else.
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    Like even with a painting--
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    a painting becomes a very static, fixed
    thing,
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    but a drawing, you can make it three-
    dimensional,
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    you can make it flat, you can turn it into
    a sphere.
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    You can just keep pushing it and pushing
    it and pushing it,
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    because all it is, is information.
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    It's just a bunch of marks.
Title:
Matthew Ritchie in “Structures” - Season 3 | “Art in the Twenty-First Century"
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Video Language:
English
Team:
Art21
Project:
"Art in the Twenty-First Century" broadcast series
Duration:
13:59

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