On the Politics of Contemporary Art (Why Modern Day Art)

 1. The conceptual ecosystem of  Contemporary Art has been saturated by political messaging.  

2. It forms and deforms the meaning of Contemporary Art.

3. The signifying message of Contemporary Art requires that the art itself pay a virtue signal  tax for being allowed acceptance to the genre.

4. The Contemporary Art ecosystem constrains and governs its aesthetic territory by rejecting alternative art expressions from self-signifying differently.  

5. Its authoritarian stranglehold on the art vernacular creates and distorts cultural discourse.

6. This political aesthetic Kafka Trap operates as a cultural sensory deprivation mechanism.

7. The Contemporary Art ecosystem entangles and engulfs all currently produced art into an inescapable framework of political polarization.  You cannot choose a side.  The side chooses you or NOT.

8. Abstraction and other more esoteric territories have been co-opted. Play or perish.

9. The social politics of Contemporary Art are aesthetically cancerous.  Contemporary Art is a money sink for political and social special interest groups whose promotional interests have nothing to do with art.

10.  Contemporary Art is a self-serving, self-perpetuating system that demands absolute conformity.

This is where artists such as myself fork away from this madness to create a new stream of expression that is called Modern Day Art.

It's a cohort of artists whose byproducts are not described by Identity politics or any other form of political bigotry.  Art for Art's Sake on a planet whose insane asylums have open borders.

The Modern Day Art Manifesto

 The Modern Day Art Manifesto - (a work in progress)

Modern Day Art is an evolutionary succession away from Contemporary Art.

It can be referred to as #mdArt, #mdA, #notContemporaryArt, #nCA, or #modernDayArt.

Two aesthetic subsets of Modern Day Art are #postContemporary and #newModern. Both refer to esoteric Modern Day Art ecosystems. These obvious manifestations do not preclude more existing and future sub-genres.

All art creation exercises additive, subtractive, transformational, spiritual, temporal, theoretical, cognitive, and other forms of artistic agency.

In the case of Modern Day art as an aesthetic ecosystem, it subtracts from Contemporary Art - Identity Politics and the hubris of toxic academic entanglement. Consider its relationship to Contemporary Art's Art World as an orthogonal social entity wholly disengaged from those trappings and expectations. The creation, quality, and intent of Modern Day Art is not to satisfy an Art Market but rather an Art future while mindfully acknowledging the importance of providing the artist's means to a dignified living.

Modern Day Art promotes an exclusive Art for Art's Sake aesthetic.

The subtraction of political identity virtue signaling neutralizes holding galleries and art patrons hostage to the discriminatory tribalism of gender, age, moral superiority claims, "saving______" platitudes, and so on. The Art is intended to feed aesthetic, artistic, and intellectual hunger.

- Frank Krasicki, May 2021

Shredding the Banksy Narrative

I've been shredding artwork for a few years now.  Its a reductive form of creating something new.

Recently, at an auction of one of Banksy framed illustrations the frame apparently shredded the illustration.  The more I watched the video in its various incarnations on the internet the more I believe that Banksy's performance piece is a magic trick illusion.

IMO. there are two illustrations in the frame.  One, the whole cloth piece is rolled down while the second, pre-cut illustration is slowly unwound to shredding noises.

I could be wrong of course but I suspect this may be true.

Looking for my shredded work?


Lake/Ice

Reflections on Mirror Lake

Broken Glass

Representational Ambivalence #1

to mention the most recent examples.