Miltos Manetas on Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:18:26 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> The Art of the Undercommons |
When it comes to the reason for which they do things, artists seldom say the truth Goran. Please, remember that.. nobody does "stuff for the rich", that simply isn't possible because art is such a niche activity that if you have such a clear agenda (doing things that will sell), you simply pull out of it and get into another industry instead. Now, when it comes to painting, people start and quit it and then start again, because its the most amazing and that enigmatic visual activity a person can undertake. But at some point you need to stop, because it doesn't always feel "right" to paint (not because painting is some kind of bourgeois art, but because like drugs, painting doesn't have much of an effect on you after a while. That is a personal problem of the artist of course, the viewer would actually never notice. Ps Why don't you send us a link with the paintings of your friend? I would be happy to see them. Sent from my BlackBerry? wireless device -----Original Message----- From: Goran Maric <goranmaric58@hotmail.com> Sender: nettime-l-bounces@kein.org Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:24:50 To: <nettime-l@kein.org> Subject: Re: <nettime> The Art of the Undercommons a good friend of mine who was doing installation/performance, for about 20 years in NYC, whose work and thoughts I do deeply love, about few years ago decided stop doing it . start doing painting, said needs to sell, to live, or rather just to exist, money in our world doesn't grow on trees, it is some kind of exchange world we live in, 'a' for 'b.' <...> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org