Almine Rech is pleased to present Existential Time, an exhibition of new works by Joseph Kosuth that is a continuation of a series of installations begun in 2020.
Kosuth’s interest is in the meaning of time as we experience it within the array of contexts life provides. In the sixteen individual works titled ‘Quoted Clocks’, Kosuth’s use of the analog clock referentially anchors the concept of time to its most literal and familiar visual representation, serving as a canny reminder that time is contained in a clock no more than the complex process of making meaning in art is contained in a single object. However precise the mechanism, a clock functions visually as little more than a punctuation mark in need of a sentence, allowing those who look at it, collectively, individually, only a glimpse of a moment that never simply passes. By removing the clock as a fabricated object from its cultural context of functionality and then combining it with quoted language also taken from prior contexts, ‘Quoted Clocks’ further punctuates the insufficiencies, limits, and surpluses of meaning that characterize our perceptions of duration. As an ongoing series of reflections, Kosuth’s Existential Time invites us to reflect on our own lived experience as it flashes by or hangs heavily, leading to questions of consciousness, to what we mean within time.
The pioneer of Conceptual art, throughout his career, Kosuth has insisted on maintaining the integrity and rigor of his fundamental insight that the ‘visual’ component of art is only one part of a complex structure that produces meaning within art, and not its basis. Since the 1960s, Kosuth has used inherited meanings, particularly language-based categories, such as quotes, names, and definitions, to construct new meaning in visual work. His work poses fundamental questions about the presentation and reception of art by investigating the very categories that define what art is. He selects elements for his work from contexts outside of visual art: philosophy, literature, history, popular culture, dictionaries, scientific theory, and linguistics, among others.
Joseph Kosuth
Existential Time
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Paris, Front Space
For the safety of our visitors and staff, masks must be worn by all visitors upon entrance and hand sanitiser will be provided at the door and throughout the gallery.
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The gallery is open from 11 am until 7 pm.
February 12 — March 26, 2022 • Paris, Front Space
February 12 — March 26, 2022 • Paris, Front Space
February 12 — March 26, 2022 • Paris, Front Space
February 12 — March 26, 2022 • Paris, Front Space
February 12 — March 26, 2022 • Paris, Front Space
February 12 — March 26, 2022 • Paris, Front Space
February 12 — March 26, 2022 • Paris, Front Space
February 12 — March 26, 2022 • Paris, Front Space
February 12 — March 26, 2022 • Paris, Front Space
February 12 — March 26, 2022 • Paris, Front Space
February 12 — March 26, 2022 • Paris, Front Space
February 12 — March 26, 2022 • Paris, Front Space
February 12 — March 26, 2022 • Paris, Front Space
February 12 — March 26, 2022 • Paris, Front Space
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Joseph Kosuth, Quoted Clocks #16 (A.R.), 2022
Clock and vinyl
Reads: Is it later yet?
Jennifer E. Smith
40 x 4.5 cm
16 x 2 in -
Joseph Kosuth, Quoted Clocks #15 (A.R.), 2022
Clock and vinyl
Reads: No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
James Joyce
40 x 4.5 cm
16 x 2 in -
Joseph Kosuth, Quoted Clocks #14 (A.R.), 2022
Clock and vinyl
Reads: Make it a mistake.
Gertrude Stein
40 x 4.5 cm
16 x 2 in -
Joseph Kosuth, Quoted Clocks #13 (A.R.), 2022
Clock and vinyl
Reads: First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.
Virginia Woolf
40 x 4.5 cm
16 x 2 in -
Joseph Kosuth, Quoted Clocks #12 (A.R.), 2022
Clock and vinyl
Reads: Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity.
Djuna Barnes
40 x 4.5 cm
16 x 2 in -
Joseph Kosuth, Quoted Clocks #11 (A.R.), 2022
Clock and vinyl
Reads: The beginning is always today.
Mary Wollstonecraft
40 x 4.5 cm
16 x 2 in -
Joseph Kosuth, Quoted Clocks #10 (A.R.), 2022
Clock and vinyl
Reads: Qu’on finissait par s’habituer à tout.
Albert Camus
40 x 4.5 cm
16 x 2 in -
Joseph Kosuth, Quoted Clocks #9 (A.R.), 2022
Clock and vinyl
Reads: La visibilité est un piège.
Michel Foucault
40 x 4.5 cm
16 x 2 in -
Joseph Kosuth, Quoted Clocks #8 (A.R.), 2022
Clock and vinyl
Reads: On ne peut sortir du quotidien.
Henri Lefebvre
40 x 4.5 cm
16 x 2 in -
Joseph Kosuth, Quoted Clocks #7 (A.R.), 2022
Clock and vinyl
Reads: Toute séparation est un lien.
Simone Weil
40 x 4.5 cm
16 x 2 in -
Joseph Kosuth, Quoted Clocks #6 (A.R.), 2022
Clock and vinyl
Reads: The misfortune of today is no more real than the happiness of the past.
Jorge Luis Borges
40 x 4.5 cm
16 x 2 in -
Joseph Kosuth, Quoted Clocks #5 (A.R.), 2022
Clock and vinyl
Reads: We look at the present through a rear-view mirror.
Marshall McLuhan
40 x 4.5 cm
16 x 2 in -
Joseph Kosuth, Quoted Clocks #4 (A.R.), 2022
Reads: Time and space are modes by which we think, and not conditions in which we live.
Albert Einstein
40 x 4.5 cm
16 x 2 in -
Joseph Kosuth, Quoted Clocks #3 (A.R.), 2022
Clock and vinyl
Reads: Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed.
Walter Benjamin
40 x 4.5 cm
16 x 2 in -
Joseph Kosuth, Quoted Clocks #2 (A.R.), 2022
Clock and vinyl
Reads: We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
John Cage
40 x 4.5 cm
16 x 2 in -
Joseph Kosuth, Quoted Clocks #1 (A.R.), 2022
Clock and vinyl
Reads: One night I dreamed I was locked in my Father’s watch.
John Ciardi
40 x 4.5 cm
16 x 2 in