“My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions (with intrusions of irrelevant information).”
Marlene Dumas (b. 1953, Cape Town) – one of the most important, influential figurative painters working today.
With Dumas one may easy get into a trap of ‘an infatuated viewer’. Trap she has crafted herself [...]
Check out these two last posts on Henri Art Magazine:
In Hyperaesthetics – 19 sixty he describes our culture – POMO (Postmodernism) of an unacceptable lightness:
We are somnambulists and voyeurs, lost in the hallucinatory world of light-speed and lenses. We are no longer grounded. We float in the digital subjective, our voices not quite our [...]
This is meant to be an attempt in coining a new term in the Art Theory field.
Curiously enough, the term Liminality continues not to be recognised by the modern dictionaries of English; even though numerous (stated below) researchers have been using it in academic papers. It doesn’t exist as an aesthetic concept or any distinguished [...]
Art is a privilege, a blessing, a relief. (…) Privilege entitles you when you deserve nothing. Privilege is something you have and others don’t.
Art was a privilege given to me and I pursue it even more than a privilege of having children. (…) It’s a fantastic privilege to have access to the unconscious. I [...]
Let’s imagine that they met as actual beings – the ‘modern’, the ‘postmodern’ and the ‘conceptual’ – at a round table in a cafeteria. The ‘modern’ is classically beautiful yet it wears rebellious clothes, there is a spark of a charismatic idealism in its eyes; the ‘postmodern’ is the ‘modern’s twin sister, yet it does [...]
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