At last I’ve found an opening in the harnessed
stand
Lars Spuybroek has taken against the "abstract" modern art of the 20
th
century: He distinguishes a “pure” or “generalized” abstraction - which reduces
everything to the naked structure of the sublimated idea and kills the sympathy
required for the creation of real beauty – and a “specified” or “temporary”
abstraction that he considers an essential condition for the detached form of
tenderness that belongs to the holy sympathy. If I explain this correctly,
the abstraction of Mondriaan, Rothko, Judd and Lewitt is pure and rejectable,
whereas Spuybroek's own abstraction is an indispensable virtue.
