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Art seems to be more like the huge compost pile in my garden than the sterile infant ward, where I actually was born. Trying to survive as an artist, many drowned in the juice of their own feelings. Certainly one cannot study art. As well there is no one who understands all this stuff. History is written by its victors just like art-history. And so these strange inconsistencies arise: If one makes an excursion to the moon and chokes on all this ugly moon dust... Fortunately, I have not studied art the purest form of utter absurdity. I trust no one since childhood. A freshly-whitened panel seems suspicious to me. If I cannot stop myself and start painting, it becomes more and more difficult. In order not to lose the upper hand, I go back step by step... Sometimes I defiantly refuse painting, maybe for weeks or even for a year, to starve out all these crazy thoughts. And the whole time I rack my brain, whether they have already starved... When I finally resign after a long time and take up a paint-brush, so that it will not rot in the wash water: Then suddenly they are back, these unspeakable thoughts...
The Closed Gallery (Institution) has opened ...
Excuse me the gallery is still a construction site, the craftsmen have not left yet and it's going haywire...
Closed Gallery is a historical art concept from 1969 and now I am forced to participate? Undetermined powers are forcing me! The restrictions go so far that I had to found my own gallery... I founded "The Closed Gallery," which is now open. But in my case it is more like an asylum. By having everything closed, the asylum is one that expands worldwide. There's not much to see in a closed asylum, so you won't see much in this gallery. I really feel sorry for you as the audience, there's not much you can do except hang such a strange thing in front of your nose and ignore everything. Of course you will die soon, physically or at least from boredom, God bless you...
History
Closed Gallery is a 1969 piece consisting of three invitations to gallery shows in Amsterdam, Turin, and Los Angeles printed on simple white cards. They informed the recipients that during the exhibition, the gallery would be closed. “It’s the purest form of this notion of what the physicality of art is and what art is really all about. One doesn’t need to even have the gallery space", said David Platzker, who sent out numerous announcement cards worldwide, each saying simply: “During the exhibition the gallery will be closed”. “I got permission from Robert Barry to do the show, ”Platzker said. “I asked him if he would lend me copies of the three prior announcement cards and he said, ‘Why would you want them? There is no show. I don’t want people to come to the gallery because the gallery is closed.’
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History
Closed Gallery is a 1969 piece consisting of three invitations to gallery shows in Amsterdam, Turin, and Los Angeles printed on simple white cards. They informed the recipients that during the exhibition, the gallery would be closed. “It’s the purest form of this notion of what the physicality of art is and what art is really all about. One doesn’t need to even have the gallery space", said David Platzker, who sent out numerous announcement cards worldwide, each saying simply: “During the exhibition the gallery will be closed”. “I got permission from Robert Barry to do the show, ”Platzker said. “I asked him if he would lend me copies of the three prior announcement cards and he said, ‘Why would you want them? There is no show. I don’t want people to come to the gallery because the gallery is closed.’
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WARNING
Why you should never
eat art with a spoon!
If you wait too long before eating
you will not starve,
but you could die of boredom.
When you eat too fast,
you could choke on it.
When you eat too much,
you could ruin your stomach
and cut your teeth even on the Mona Lisa,
it's not on canvas, it's on wood!
And finally,
your spoon would be too small
for Michelangelo's David...
Why you should never
eat art with a spoon!
If you wait too long before eating
you will not starve,
but you could die of boredom.
When you eat too fast,
you could choke on it.
When you eat too much,
you could ruin your stomach
and cut your teeth even on the Mona Lisa,
it's not on canvas, it's on wood!
And finally,
your spoon would be too small
for Michelangelo's David...