The Old Brand New: New Virtuosity

THE OLD BRAND NEW

A monthly lecture series in the English language in Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam revolving around the concept ‘new’ in the arts.

24 March: NEW VIRTUOSITY

With Luc Tuymans and Boris Charmatz
Roughly a work of virtuosity is an artwork produced with an exuberance of great technical skill and within the framework of a specific discipline. In that sense, virtuosity is connected to a conventional standard of quality that de?nes a ‘received’ hierarchy of aesthetic values. In the 16th and 17th centuries, ‘virtuoso’ was used as an honorific term reserved for a person distinguished in any intellectual or artistic field. Nowadays the concept of virtuosity has moved away from notions such as excellence and distinction and seems to have become synonymous with craftsmanship and mere technical prowess. What is the status and place of a notion as virtuosity in an epoch in which the borderline between mastery and ordinary ability has dramatically shifted?

Tickets and reservations: available at Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam, www.ssba.nl
More information: www.theoldbrandnew.nl

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New Idealism 14 mei:
The Otolith Group: Kodwo Eshun & Anjalika Sagar and Marianne van Kerkhoven
New Beauty 22 juni:
Marina Warner and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
What is New? 15 september:
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