<b>Interview with Michael Baldwin and Mel Ramsden about Art & Language, a publication that reflected on theoretical problems of conceptual art</b><br><br>Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia?id_capsula=819">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia?id_capsula=819</a><br>
<br>Founded in Coventry (England) in 1968 by Michael Baldwin, Terry
Atkinson, David Bainbridge and Harold Hurell, Art & Language brought
together the work that these artists had been creating jointly since
1965. A year later, they published the first issue of the homonymous
magazine Art-Language, a publication that reflected on theoretical
problems of conceptual art and became a platform from which to develop
the group’s projects. During 1969 and 1970, Mel Ramsden, Ian Burn,
Joseph Kosuth and Charles Harrison joined the group, which eventually
ended up bringing together more than thirty artists in subsequent years.
Since 1977, Art & Language has consisted of the artistic
collaboration between Michael Baldwin and Mel Ramsden, with the
theoretical contribution of the historian and art critic Charles
Harrison, who died in 2009.<br><br>Son[i]a talks to Michael Baldwin and
Mel Ramsden to coincide with the recent long-term loan of an
extraordinary collection of 800 pieces by Art & Language at the
MACBA, courtesy of the French collector Philippe Méaille.