The time horizon of painting holds a large set of affects and visual stimuli that seem inexhaustible. Painting can act as a preservation of a certain potentiality, its unlimited capacity of staging meanings and actions. As David Joselit says, “ painting marks time, rather than intervening in the events that populate it ”. In other words, unlike politics, there are no short-term objectives and analysis, but rather the live display of accumulation of time.
a painting on the spot. As opposed to painting en plein air, the paintings exhibited at Dienerstrasse are not substitutes for an ephemeral moment but rather the privileged site to negotiate attention, interfaces that act as sites for the painter to deal with its own position of author in a time of massive image production and circulation. In other words, a place where the capacity of painting to be the holder of affective time in an economy of attention is renegotiated.
Paolo Baggi for »Residency Dienerstrasse« 2020
