Friday, Oct. 25, 2013 9:57 a.m.
Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar.
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.
- Paul Klee When you see a hundred paintings, individually, painstakingly painted to look real but each unique in details, you are supposed to be awed. Not all viewers are impressed by the idea, but most of them agree that the action demands respect. Here come the questions: What is the difference between a hundred hand-painted wall tiles and a hundred paintings? What is the difference between 100 identical objects and 100 identical paintings depicting that object? What does it mean when you start creating another hundred paintings of another object after you finish the first hundred? Is the second project inferior to the first? What value can you build in this process of repetition? If the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth... Nth batches are just as skilfully painted as the first, what makes us feel tired? Why do we tend to value the first batch more than the rest? Is there any difference between a hundred photo prints of the same building and a hundred photo prints of a hundred similar but slightly different buildings? Would someone discuss with me? Or play tetris together. |