{"id":1114,"date":"2009-09-28T16:58:39","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T23:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/09\/peter_santino_is_sorry\/"},"modified":"2009-09-28T16:58:39","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T23:58:39","slug":"peter_santino_is_sorry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/09\/peter_santino_is_sorry.html","title":{"rendered":"Peter Santino is sorry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>KUNSTFEHLER-FEHLERKUNST (Failed Art &#8211; The Art of Failure)<\/i> ran at the ACC Galerie in Weimar till August 9th and is now at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halle14.org\/\">Halle 14<\/a> in Leipzig through Oct. 25.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.santino.tv\/work\/2009\/weimar.html\"><br \/>Peter Santino&#8217;s contribution<\/a> is a field of sand hemispheres that spell an apology in Braille. If the blind read it, they&#8217;ll ruin it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"petersantinosorry.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/petersantinosorry.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"261\" width=\"479\" \/> Ambivalent regrets are nothing new for the (former Seattle) Northern California artist. In various forms, his apology text has been in motion since 1995, when, presumably, he first realized the error of his ways.<\/p>\n<p>Translation: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whomever,<\/p>\n<p>On January 25th, 1968, when I first began my creative work, I felt certain I<br \/>had something to offer, a vision, something to put into the world. Now, some 41<br \/>years later, it has become clear that what I must offer is my sincere apology.<br \/>Nineteen years ago, I recognized and embraced my failure; my failure to<br \/>achieve a measurable level of artistic communication. Despite numerous exhibitions<br \/>and more than sufficient opportunities to explain my vision, no thing has been<br \/>achieved.<br \/>I must apologize:<br \/>I am Sorry for allowing my ego to convince me of my cleverness.<br \/>I am Sorry for allowing that cleverness to permeate my work.<br \/>I am Sorry, Very Sorry for assuming my vision had merit enough<br \/>to conquer,<br \/>to change,<br \/>to dominate.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Santino<br \/>Eureka, May 2009<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> Dave Hickey discusses the reasons for art failure in a lecture taped by James Kalm, which the lecture hosts want to take down so watch them soon, part one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Dyx-DlK96s8\">here<\/a>. Charlie Finch calls him a bulbous phony <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twocoatsofpaint.com\/2009\/09\/critic-on-critic-charlie-finch-vs-dave.html\">here<\/a>. I don&#8217;t agree with a lot Hickey has to say this time out, but whatever he&#8217;s saying, he can&#8217;t be written off as a phony. Finch and Hickey have more in common than either is likely to own. Both are good writers with a tendency to swing wide at the lip. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUNSTFEHLER-FEHLERKUNST (Failed Art &#8211; The Art of Failure) ran at the ACC Galerie in Weimar till August 9th and is now at Halle 14 in Leipzig through Oct. 25. Peter Santino&#8217;s contribution is a field of sand hemispheres that spell an apology in Braille. If the blind read it, they&#8217;ll ruin it. Ambivalent regrets are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}