Boundaries, authority and change Tanya Barson, Curator In terms of this being part of a process, I think that what we were doing was not changing the character of the work in any fundamental way – we were facilitating its display, and so making changes that would enable us to show the work or the work to be on display for a length of time – and not just a couple of weeks as it was first displayed in Rome, or three or four days in Miami, but over a number of months that it would be on display, and could be sustained for that length of time. But I think that perhaps there are different attitudes by different artists about how one finishes, how one gets to a state of completion. And I think maybe with Carlos, yes he works with a number of collaborators, he works with a number of studio assistants – which a lot of artists do and have done for years – but his process in a way has that collaborative element, so I think for us to become involved wasn’t a problem for him – other artists work in different ways, other artists have a view that they and they alone create, complete their work. |