BLACK BOX - Tecno-Libro

in her foreword to the book, Black Box: Decoding the Art Work of Martin Gantman, the noted art historian and artist, Dr. Lise Patt, writes the following: Martin Gantman grew his artistic bones during the last throes of modernism, when art s autonomy had already been undermined and all that remained of this enduring style were the simple, clean lines of formalism. He cut his intellectual teeth on conceptualism, a short-lived art movement with long-ranging impact on art s raison d tre. and developed his visual muscle in the warren of posts that were coined during the 1980s to lessen history s stranglehold on art s discourses, institutions, and practices. Yet, by the time Gantman hit his stride as a visual artist he had already severed many of the ties that tethered him to these varied movements. if, in 1913, Duchamp drew a line in modernism