Robert Barry
Robert Barry
Robert Barryis an American artist. Since 1967, Barry has produced non-material works of art, installations, and performance art using a variety of otherwise invisible media. In 1968, Robert Barry is quoted as saying "Nothing seems to me the most potent thing in the world."...
ProfessionPerformance Artist
Date of Birth9 March 1936
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I try to create a kind of dynamic thing that hopefully some people will become interested in. And what they do with it after that is sort of up to them. But it's a specific item, it's a specific thing that I've done. And what they do with it is their problem.
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Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.
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I know where the mistakes are. Nothing is perfect and I understand that.
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I make my own surprises and I'm always surprised to see what I do, to see it when it's finished and the biggest challenge is once I finish it, it's not a failure. It's not a flop.
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You can't make somebody care about what you're doing. Either they get it, either there's that connection - or they don't.
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You can never really predict how people are going to react, what they're going to think about, whether they care.
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The notion of a thing, materiality, was something that I think was something very in peoples' minds when they were dealing with earth and metal and different kinds of metals and the interaction of different sorts of material.
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The Vogels were quite strict in what they acquired. They never acquired a projection. They never acquired a sound piece. They were never big on photos that much, unless it was photos documenting something. They had some limitations into what they bought.
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You can't have silence on the radio; people will turn away from the station.
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I had always taken photos - always, always taken photos, made movies.
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Even though you're reading something, it's as though that person who wrote it is speaking to you. It's a form of conversation, really.