Eric Doeringer: I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art

You are kindly invited to the opening this Friday 22nd October, 2010, at 7pm. Eric Doeringer Nikoli več ne bom delal dolgočasne umetnosti (I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art) Curators: Nina Slejko & Conny Blom

In 1971 John Baldessari was asked by the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Canada to do an exhibition at the school gallery. Since the funds could not be raised for Baldessari's journey, the artist suggested that the students should execute the piece for him. They were to write the phrase "I will not make any more boring art" on the gallery walls. Possibly inspired by the work, the students covered the walls completely with the sentence, which furthermore inspired Baldessari to later execute his own version of the work both as a video piece in which he is seen writing the sentence repeatedly in a note book, and also presented as a well known text piece/drawing. The sentence itself was reflecting Baldessari's dissatisfaction with the state of painting in the early 70's and the piece was telling of a new form of art that has started to gain grounds and of which John Baldessari was one of the forerunners of. Ideas that could be executed by others than the artist him/herself and likewise performative actions meant taking big steps away from painting and sculpture into a new form of art – the conceptual art. New York based artist Eric Doeringer works continuously with questions of authorship and copyright. With his continuous "Bootleg" series he has since 2001 been making small scale cheap copies of more established and commercial artists’ work, selling them in the streets or outside art fairs like a street vendor selling fake Gucci bags or pirate CDs. With the "Bootleg" series Doeringer has gained quite a lot of attention and his copies has now entered into established exhibition spaces around the world. In most cases the artists whom Doeringer has copied have reacted with amusement, but in some cases he has been threatened with lawsuits. The latter was the case when he made his own John Currin and Alex Katz pieces. In the "Bootleg" series Doeringer's idea has been to copy artworks with a commercial potential. Since 2008 he has also started to recreate and reenact conceptual artworks. Works that does not translate into a commercial product as easily. The "Conceptual Art Recreations" series so far features remakes of works by amongst others Sol LeWitt On Kawara and Yoko Ono. At CAC Bukovje Doeringer will be restaging Baldessari's piece "I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art" as mentioned above. Supposedly the original wall piece has only been staged two times since Nova Scotia, and this is the first time it will be executed in the Slovene language. Doeringer has decided to install the piece with the help of audience participation, where we, the curators and staff at CAC are to start writing the sentence and pencils will be offered to the visitors to add their promises of not making any more boring art.

For more information about the artist: http://www.ericdoeringer.com/ Interviews: http://dancingganesha.blogspot.com/2009/05/eric-doeringer-i-got-up.html http://www.examiner.com/fine-arts-in-salt-lake-city/exclusive-assassination-eric-doeringer-artist-bootlegger-and-g-e-n-i-u-s http://www.exibart.com/notizia.asp/IDNotizia/13542/IDCategoria/45

Eric Doeringer
re-staging of John Baldessari´s "I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art"
Kuratoren: Nina Slejko, Conny Blom