Vito Acconci. «Kiss Off (1971) was made specifically for the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) Lithography Workshop, an innovative program that brought many conceptual artists, including Acconci, along with Dan Graham and John Baldessari, to produce prints as artists-in-residence throughout the program’s run from 1969-1976. For this print (…) Acconci coated his mouth with red lipstick and then planted kisses all over his body before rubbing himself onto the printing stone. In this artwork, the body becomes a discrete unit capable of mechanical reproduction, a quality similar to the printmaking medium’s ability to produce multiples since an original image can be copied ad infinitum. Beyond printmaking, an interest in the relationship between an original image and its manifestation as a multiple corresponded with this era’s interest in serial forms. Most closely associated with Minimalism, seriality was the physical expression of a repeated element in an artwork–think of Andy Warhol’s Brillo boxes–exploring ideas of similarity and variance through the lens of industrial mass-production. The critic Robert Pincus-Witten once described Acconci’s work as “a fusion of the Minimalist position in sculpture with a refreshed comprehension of the erotic implications in Duchamp’s late sexual works….” This exploration of Minimalist concerns collided with Acconci’s inclusion of the physical body as an artistic medium.»
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