Artur Barrio - Legacy

Legacy

Artur Barrio has become more accepting of the greater art community. His work (or replicas created as examples of his work) is now exhibited with increasing frequency. However, his attitude is not the main reason that Artur Barrio is now working within the larger established art community. The greater change was not in Artur Barrio but rather in the art word itself. Barrio still “views curators and institutions … as completely superfluous to requirements for works of art and exhibitions. In his eyes curators are reduced to the role of logistics co-ordinators and as such, the institution in turn becomes no more than a (temporary) channel for his work.” However it is because of the work of Artur Barrio and many artists like him that Conceptual art and the use of untraditional media in art has become acceptable. Much of the rigid and restricting aspects of the art world that Barrio rejects in his Manifesto has been outgrown by the art world. Barrio would not agree that all the changes he was working towards have come to pass. Nevertheless, we can see that an artist such as Artur Barrio no longer needs to set himself totally at odds with the art world in general. There are now many art establishments that accept and embrace the type of work that Barrio produces.