Question for all you modern art aficionados out there; New abstractionist paintings… what the bleep are they about?
Classical modernism was a typical response to figuration; a new way of looking at the world and art itself. But still; this stream was deeply rooted in ‘real life’. New abstraction seems to mainly be a response to the classical modernists. An attempt to show how they (you know… Mondriaan, Kandinsky, Malevistj etc) failed to bring about their desired utopia. Are these new abstractionist artists (i’m thinking Armleder, Rockenschaub, Buren) going to do any better?

The postmodern abstract painter does not paint what the biological eye sees, instead they focus on what our minds eye sees. In fact they try to open that proverbial eye with their art. They want to to make the viewer aware of themselves with images from esoterical, non-existing worlds and sub-conscious feelings. Paintings I would like to describe as ‘useless rubbish’.

It’s not that I am too much of a beta-minded person to be interested in things that my eyes can’t see, it’s just that I think that there is no medium so incapable of communicating those messages as a painters’ canvas. If your wish is to convey your philosophies of other better worlds, the mysteries of the universe, the power of the mind or whatever; write a book, make a film…. or do a dance… don’t paint it. That sucks dude.

A lot of autonomous artists may look down at artdirectors and copywriters at advertising agencies, regarding them untalented corporate sellouts, there is one important lesson that artists could learn from them. Any medium you make should have enough power to able to communicate its message on its own, without explanation. If you need to read a book to be able to appreciate a painting, you should just have written a book.

I have no questions to your answers,
you are much stronger than I am,
for the rest, I doubt there is any need to worry,

this world will - probably- keep on turning,
stillgot a couple or so centuries to go,
you may doubt me, but this is true. I promise,

in the end all will come down to you and/or me,
just the way you like it, certainly unsure,
you have bureid your lies underneath the truth,

stop it now and we wil surely find peace,
our hearts forgotten with a last passionate tango,
I was never much of a dancer.

As if you’ve never written alcohol-driven poetry.

Not-so-Breaking news: The world as we know it may soon come to an end. Not by nuclear warfare, terrorism, a comet falling on the earths surface or because of global warming… but by the hand of a couple of hundred scientist who perhaps have to compensate for a small ‘wiener’. November 27 of this year the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be switched on. Us proud Europeans will then officially be the proud ‘owners’ of the world largest partical accelerator. some really smart science geeks will use this thing to smash elemetary parts into each other with encredible speed. Yeah dude! Go Hardon Collider!

Worst Case Scenario for these tests: that somewhere in the Geneva are we end up with a black hole… which would be bad news. (Could somebody please get Homer away from the controlpanel….) At least the people at CERN (responsible for this enormous fallus) are honoust about it; the admit they don’t know what will happen when they spead up these particles to eventually smash them into each at aproximately the speed of light. Could be dark matter (which is what about 95% of the universe is made of), could be new dimension (anybody remember the tv series ‘Sliders’? yeehaw!), could be….ehrr… nothing, or it could be a forementioned black hole.

Is there reason to panic? Probably not. Particles travelling at incredible speed already arrive at good old planet earth from time to time for millions of years already… and we’re still here. So why this blog about it then? Well, because it intrigues me… When I think about nature, I think about trees, animals, the circle of life, that sort of thing… and besides that I have my views on life-after-death and eternity, that sort of stuff… How would these scientists look at this? If you’re working on finding answers to the great questions, is their still wonder in a mother duck defing her little chicks against a grey herron (I saw this scene on my way to work this morning, the herron did not stand a chance. Hurrah)? Anyway, just wanted to share. Oh, and science geeks: you’re doing a great job a salute you… never mind the little wiener.