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commissioners' law.
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by Matsa Mitsu Tashima, exclusively for Stylusart..
| Above all I want to congratulate Stylusart. Since I discovered it by recommendation of the Nihongo Yellow Pages from Japan I have become a loyal follower, as I suppose many of its readers have. It is possible that someone may know me as a painter. As a writer my activity is more intimate, more arduous and in a certain way, more artificial. |
Dora García
Installation 2000-2001
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Verbis (Daniel Gutiérrez)
Installation 2000
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There are hundreds of thousands of painters in the world (of which I am one) who work and make their living by art. Sometimes I ask myself whether we are not merely the owners of a ticket of the great worldwide lottery of fame and success. We work on our own, we try to stand apart from one another thinking we will set the course for the art of the future. We all seek to be unique, special. In the best of cases we have the notion that we are an indispensable piece which is necessary to complete the puzzle of current contemporary art. In many cases we are content with reaching half the success a model achieves when she acquires a new partner, a tenth of the echoes of the statements of a politician, a hundredth part of the scandal there is when someone takes a photo of a model showing her breasts and a millionth part of the repercussion there is when fellatio is practised on a president of the USA. |
| But where is the art of the new century forged? Many may think, with an overwhelming logic, that the nest for that art is the artists' studios. My activity as a teacher has allowed me to get to know many students and to have a close relationship with other professors. All this leads me to think that contemporary art is really forged in the minds of certain commissioners who inspect exhibitions dedicated to the most up to date art. I am acquainted with people who follow attentively the trends set by certain commissioners of contemporary art exhibitions. This has led to an inversion of what would be reasonable and they have become mere interpreters of the ideas in fashion. |
Verbis (Daniel Gutiérrez)
Installation 2000
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Núria Membrado
Installation 2000
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There used to be commissioners specializing in certain tendencies , now there are commissioners who organize exhibitions on "solitude" , "identity", or "desires". They are authentic tailor drawers in which the organizer of the show is the protagonist. At the end they are subjects which, from the creative point of view, are as rare as "still life" or "flowers and nature".
I think we can ask the commissioners to create a personal oeuvre if they think of themselves as artists; not to be bloodsuckers of the works of others. We can ask them to feel the anguish of creation; to abandon their comfortable offices; to give up their safe salaries and large bonuses; to forget the dominance of concept and to end up by recognizing the greatness of fulfilment; to press out his authentic doubts and anguishes so as to give birth to a personal oeuvre. Who knows? Perhaps more than one will like it, maybe even some real artist may spring from one of those commissioners.
matsamitsu@hotmail.com
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