detail,"Art-Out" set; watercolors on three sheets of arches paper /joined/: "my delusions and dreams are reality"* oct. 2011

            *Imagination, to Antonin Artaud, was reality; he considered dreams, thoughts and delusions as no less real than the "outside" world. To him, reality appeared to be a consensus, the same consensus the audience accepts when they enter a theatre to see a play and, for a time, pretend that what they are seeing is real.
Artaud saw suffering as essential to existence and thus rejected all utopias as inevitable dystopia. He denounced the degradation of civilization, yearned for cosmic purification, and called for an ecstatic loss of the self. Hence Jane Goodall considers Artaud to be a modern Gnostic while Ulli Seegers stresses the Hermetic elements in his works.
A very important study on the Artaud work comes from Jacques Derrida. According to the philosopher, as theatrical writer and actor, Artaud is the embodiment of both an aggressive and reparative gesture, which strucks, sounds out, is harsh in a dramatic way and with critical determination as well. Identifying life as art, he was critically focused on the western culture social drama, to point out and denying the double-dealing on which is based the western theatre tradition; he worked on the whirlpool of feelings, lunatic expression, being subjugated to a counter-force which exactly comes out from the gesture. Definitely, the Artaud work gave life to all of what has never been admitted in art, all the torment and the labour into the creator consciousness, which is about the research of the meaning of making a work of art. 
p.s. this set is not about good or bad art; it is simply a narrative of what the brain "feels' not sees. 
   

Taken on: October 7, 2011

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