Robin Winters "Free Standing Sentence" at PRESENT CO

Veröffentlicht am 18.11.2015

James Klalm entered the New York art milieu at the butt end of the 1970s. Minimalism and Conceptual Art had maintained a strident hegemony over the creative fields of Downtown for more than a decade. The freedom and fun that were part of the nescient nabs of Soho had petrified, resulting in a joyless formalism. Into this established scene a generation of outsiders, and Do-It-Yourselfers appeared, to challenge the status quo, and bring fun back into the art world. Among those, Robin Winters took the task of rethinking how to engage with the art world on his own terms. As a founding member of the artists collective COLAB he and a group of like minded misfits organized and curated shows and interventions, inventing a new way to present their art work. Decades down the line Winters is still experimenting and pushing the limits of propriety and artistic mediums. "Free Standing Sentence" is a rambling Whitmanesque combination of painting, sculpture, drawings, watercolors and text, woven together along a gallery lining shelf. Robin gives a brief interview, and discusses his techniques and poetic vision. Comrades provide a musical introduction https://comradescollective.bandcamp.com/ This program was recorded November 13, 2015 in Bushwick Brooklyn.