Thursday, April 4, 2013

Prologue


Painting is far away from the people's life and thinking in the commodity producing society. People are frightened of painting, because it scares them or makes them feel insecure. So they put it down. 
It should not be like this. This strange art-form has its charm, that it can combine reality and phantasy in such way that it will stay vivid eternally. It has another nature as well, and that is why one is not excluded in front of a painting. It can ask the people to come and think and have questions. The pictures represent an honest point of view, but instead of settle on one, it creates the moment. The "blink of an eye". In times like this, this is the most important thing what can happen to a human. You can take your time and look the context by yourself what you are living in. Nothing is pushed, nobody tries to sell you anything, you can take a tour from past to your present and from there, a quick look straight into the future, than come back and feel that you find something on your own. 
Andy Warhol made a series, emphasizing the fact that our perception of reality is secondary. I extremely agree with his statement. However I do not want to accept this state, because if it becomes a basic property of man, than we will be mediocre and meaningless and we will always fight the fire after the failure what we made before. The last one is sort of a given for anyhow. For me this is reality. We can do everything but only after making a whole bunch of failure-flush. For me it is ok. That is the nature of humankind. But I just hate reality. I prefer to do something from the elements of hard raw and wet reality with the desire, hope, joy and hard work of art. 
While I use variety of intimate places, public places and non places with the leak of action, I try to construct a scene, where a bone of a story is hidden, what calls the spectator’s creativity, senses to work. I want to hold a mirror to the spectator to have a moment to think about our present, how wacky,  unpredictable, obscure and fast it is. I try to invite the spectators to think, to be more critical with their present, to have questions about it instead of having fear.

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