Endless Present: Robert Rooney and Conceptual Art @ NGV

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Although I couldn't go to the Joseph Kosuth's '(Waiting for -) Texts for Nothing' Samuel Beckett, in play at ACCA, at least there was an exhibition about Conceptual Art. And... I saw a real Joseph Kosuth's works.
Endless Present: Robert Rooney and Conceptual Art @ NGV

Robert Rooney and Conceptual Art @ NGV
Noon time-piece (April) © Roger Cutforth
30 photos taken of the sky at noon with a calendar page for April 1969 and a coordinate location. Roger Cutforth took these photos from the roof.

" The piece combines various conditions which amount to correspondence within its particular system and which affect it as a whole. The place and time are totally equivalent throughout the period, the identities of each are displaced into recordings where, althought we cannot see or translate them, they remain 'immaterially' present. " Said Roger Cutforth, 1969.

Location piece #1 @ Roger Cutforth

Secret painting © Mel Ramdsen

One and three brooms 1965 © Joseph Kosuth

This conceptual exhibition did really inspire me. At very least it consolidate my definition of conceptual art. Two quotes from Sol LeWitt:

'In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.' (Artforum, 1967)

'Ideas alone can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form.' (first volume of Art-Language)