I have always been fascinated with extremely obscure and under the radar conceptual artists, and as I know that might be the case with more than a few others as well these days, thought it would be relevant to post a link to a very good article in Frieze magazine by the novelist Oscar van den Boogaard on the Suriname-born Dutch artist Stanley Brouwn, who while included in many early conceptual art exhibitions, and the subject of a retrospective some years ago, is very much a cult figure. As van den Boogaard writes: "He never shows up at openings; there are very few catalogues that include images of his work, let alone his portrait. True to the spirit of 1960s conceptualism, his work is about dematerialization, the impersonal as part of the creative process and the disappearance of the author. Where is Stanley Brouwn?"
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