This month's Art Review has an installation by Michelangelo Pistoletto, pretty interesting. It's images from a labyrinth installation called The Mirror of Judgement at the Serpentine Gallery.
When I ponder the question of the meaning of art as a child of it's time I come up with many ideas. Michelangelo's idea is pretty timely, and thankfully he has the audacity to bring spirituality into the dialogue.
"There is no longer a need to think of an author as being external, but rather as being embodied in every detail of the work. If the work and the universe are closely identifiable as one, then our presence is also part of this authorship. What we are doing is therefore the beginning of an artistic spirituality that offers an alternative to religious spirituality."
Lofty but perhaps he has reached the point where postmodernism explodes into post-postmodernism. Where conceptual art concealed it's rebellion in irony post-postmodernism offers a faith beyond the rational.
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