书名：签名版丨Alec Soth:Advice for Young Artists / 亚历克·索斯：给年轻艺术家的建议
定价：418.0
ISBN：9781915743763
作者：Alec Soth
版次：1
出版时间：2024-07

内容提要：

题 目：签名版丨Alec Soth:Advice for Young Artists / 亚历克·索斯：给年轻艺术家的建议

作 者：Alec Soth

出 版：Mack ，2024

装 帧：精装，72页

尺 寸：26.6*27.3 cm

 

 

2022年至2024年间，亚历克·索斯（Alec Soth）访问了美国25个本科艺术项目。《给年轻艺术家的建议》一书收录了他在此期间创作的作品。书名——或许就像这些访问本身一样——具有误导性：索斯提供的并非智慧或指导，而是对艺术创作在不同人生阶段的反映，以及对摄影、时间和衰老之间关系的多角度且未解的思考。书中的照片既有让人联想到课堂的正式研究作品，也有更加恣意的自我表达之作。模糊的布景、现成的形式和富有诗意的肖像，穿插着写在便签上的晦涩引言和未完成的信条。在这些学生中间，索斯也不时现身，宛如他们中间一位不确定的智者。

 

受沃克·埃文斯（Walker Evans）晚期宝丽来作品的启发，索斯的这组最新作品展现了他艺术实践的新拓展和新视角，距离他第一本著作的出版已过去二十年。这部作品让人回想起《破碎手册》（Broken Manual）的构思，它采用教学格式作为伪装的幌子，实则进行内省和挑衅。这既是对年轻艺术家经历的研究，也是对即将步入老年艺术家行列的一种审视。

 

Between 2022 and 2024, Alec Soth visited twenty-five undergraduate art programmes across the United States. Advice for Young Artists comprises work he made there. Its title – perhaps like the visits themselves – is misleading: rather than wisdom or guidance, Soth offers an angular and unresolved reflection on artmaking at different stages of life and the relations of photography, time, and ageing. The photographs here range from formal studies evocative of the classroom to more unruly works of self-expression. Ambiguous stagings, found forms, and lyrical portraits are interspersed with gnomic quotes and unfinished credos scrawled on Post-its. Among the students, Soth himself appears at intervals, an uncertain sage in their midst.

 

Inspired by Walker Evans’s late Polaroids, this latest body of work reveals a new expansion of Soth’s practice and a new vantage, twenty years on from the publication of his first book. Recalling the conceit of Broken Manual, it uses an instructional format as a spurious cover for introspection and provocation. As much as a study of the experience of the young artist, this is a reckoning with the prospect of becoming an old one.