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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 an historical art concept of 1969 I recently joined. I founded "The Closed Gallery" which is now open. But in my case, it's more like an asylum. Well, by closing everything, the asylum is one that extends 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 an audience, you can't do much but hang such a strange thing in front of your face and ignore everything. Of course, you will die soon, if you haven't already, God bless you...
I have never made much of an effort to exhibit, and the strict restrictions have made it impossible... It has also become common for young artists to pay for their exhibitions... Well, I'm already quite a bit older and no longer a young artist... So I do not participate in any paid exhibition, have never participated in such and will never participate in something like this! Although I get almost daily emails that I am invited to such an exhibition.
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.’
Source Wikipedia
I have never made much of an effort to exhibit, and the strict restrictions have made it impossible... It has also become common for young artists to pay for their exhibitions... Well, I'm already quite a bit older and no longer a young artist... So I do not participate in any paid exhibition, have never participated in such and will never participate in something like this! Although I get almost daily emails that I am invited to such an exhibition.
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.’
Source Wikipedia
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...