RECEPTUAL ART

Some thoughts on "Receptualism":

Receptualism is a neologism (1970) that designates a conceptual approach to an art form that is born of an intense and critical interest in the nature of the fragile reality of minimal distance. This specific version of knowledge recognizes the power of passage as an operational necessity which eliminates all that resists it and thus serves as an illucidation of the impossibility of a fully developed nothingness. On a deeper level, however, receptualism presupposes difference as essence and ascribes eternal qualities exclusively to aesthetic and ethical modes of existence. To accentuate further the primal stature of difference, dissimilar strenghs and values are assigned to the historically

inseparable roles of necessity and chance. Chance is posited as an all-pervasive, living, unknowable and superior mode of reality, whereas necessity reflects and maintains only provisional and temporary versions of "living" existence.

Receptualism proceeds and acquires effectivness by researching, exploring and exploiting the "womb" of operational necessity as a focal point for the deliverance of abstraction and reversals. It gains an ability to alter inevitabilities and to create and objectify new "ethical" life forms and values (art) by harnessing the positive powers of critical selections.

Receptualism brings to light new conceptions of "being" and breathes new life into the verb to be.