Rondom (All around the periphery)

In this publication, Jack Segbars investigates the relationship between the work of art as exhibited visual image and the textual discourse that surrounds it, the role and function of the artist in relation to the curator, institute and art criticism that together form the discourse on art.

The foundation and clarification provided by texts in relation to visual art have become an unmistakable and substantial part of the concept and the experience of art. In the practice of art, the contents of the text and image domains have approached almost identical forms. The roles of the artist on the one hand and theorists, critics and institutes on the other have almost reached a symbiosis. This collaborative structure – referred to here with the word rondom – has a strongly linguistic component, with which it is designed and communicated.