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The consequence of this artistic and radical attitude and final act is that her work as good as vanished from the annals of art history and her oeuvre has remained anonymous.
During our research it became painfully apparent how little of Lozano' s life, work and thought has survived; a couple of lines in the catalogue Global Conceptualism, Lucy Lippard' s Six Years: the Dematerialization of the Art Object, Dan Graham' s Rock My Religion, and a couple of articles in Art in America and Artforum were all we could find on her ten-year art career.
However, more recently the Dallas Observer (9 December 1999) published an article in response to her death. And, more recently, a true revival of her work unfolded: Artforum ran a long article which included interviews with a number of her colleagues and critics from the 1960s (October 2001). See this article in Artforum for a full report. And, in 2005, Hauser and Wirth took her work to the Armory show in New York, after they took over her work from the Lozano Estate (that showed her work at PS1 in 2004).
During our research it became painfully apparent how little of Lozano' s life, work and thought has survived; a couple of lines in the catalogue Global Conceptualism, Lucy Lippard' s Six Years: the Dematerialization of the Art Object, Dan Graham' s Rock My Religion, and a couple of articles in Art in America and Artforum were all we could find on her ten-year art career.
However, more recently the Dallas Observer (9 December 1999) published an article in response to her death. And, more recently, a true revival of her work unfolded: Artforum ran a long article which included interviews with a number of her colleagues and critics from the 1960s (October 2001). See this article in Artforum for a full report. And, in 2005, Hauser and Wirth took her work to the Armory show in New York, after they took over her work from the Lozano Estate (that showed her work at PS1 in 2004).
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Conceptual art has recently begun to attract attention once again through such exhibitions as Global Conceptualism, which have been influenced by the conceptual approaches of contemporary artists.
Consequentially, canonizing (which implies 'looking at' something with many eyes) work generates its institutionalization - which is exactly what the conceptual artists of the sixties rebelled against, both in their work and attitude. It is important that this renewed attention for conceptual art is deployed to create an opening beyond what has been, preserving and building on and atop, toward a critical approach to these practices as well as celebrating new fields of research developing from this acquired knowledge.
Consequentially, canonizing (which implies 'looking at' something with many eyes) work generates its institutionalization - which is exactly what the conceptual artists of the sixties rebelled against, both in their work and attitude. It is important that this renewed attention for conceptual art is deployed to create an opening beyond what has been, preserving and building on and atop, toward a critical approach to these practices as well as celebrating new fields of research developing from this acquired knowledge.