Robert Irwin: A Desert of Pure Feeling | movie | 2022 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Legendary California "light and space" artist Robert Irwin investigates the value of human perception in a world that is | dG1fNkZmQXpQMzdyM3M

Transcript

00:00 If I say to you, you can make something,

00:04 and it is going to be so beautiful,

00:07 the best thing you've ever done.

00:09 Only one problem.

00:10 It's only going to last for 20 minutes.

00:13 There are too many things to say about why Robert Irwin

00:18 is so important to the history of art,

00:21 even though so many people involved in art

00:24 have never seen a work.

00:28 When you're making art,

00:30 there's a very strong commitment to the idea of permanence.

00:33 Bob was making it so hard for people to know the work.

00:38 He had stopped making exhibitable artworks.

00:42 Those were complicated times.

00:44 I got rid of the studio.

00:46 I have dismantled the thing.

00:49 It's not that you're just removing something,

00:51 but you're going deeper into something else.

00:56 The things that I do as an artist,

00:58 they're entirely and totally experiential.

01:01 Everything I do now is in relationship

01:04 to a situation that already exists.

01:07 What I do is respond.

01:09 He would go anywhere, anytime, for anyone.

01:13 He was able to use any kind of space

01:19 and see an artwork in it.

01:24 Where is art? Where do we look to find art?

01:28 He created a very different path

01:30 about what it meant to be an artist.

01:32 His art can engage anybody on a very visceral level.

01:37 I feel, therefore I think, therefore I am.

01:46 [Music]

01:54 What's that one feeling you get when you're in this space?

01:57 Well, I'm not going to tell you.

02:00 I'll let you figure it out.

02:02 [Music]

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