L’art survivra à ses ruines
Art will survive its own ruin
Die Kunst geht knapp nicht unter
I have faith in art alone and without it I am lost.
Often I shut paintings away in a dark storage space for many long years. What do paintings shut away in this manner do all that time until they give me a sign to remind me they exist? Nothing? Certainly not since they manage to muster enough strength to attract attention to themselves. After having freed a painting from the dark, I repaint it and a transition towards another state of being takes place.
Self-destruction has always ...
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- Publisher : Collège de France, Fayard
- Series : Leçons inaugurales | 215
- Place of publication : Paris
- Year of publication : 2011
- Published on OpenEdition Books : 24 janvier 2013
- EAN (Print version) : 978-2-213-66239-8
- Electronic EAN : 978-2-7226-0122-2
- DOI : 10.4000/books.cdf.386
- Number of pages : 96 p.
Leçon inaugurale prononcée le jeudi 2 décembre 2010. Chaire de création artistique 2010-2011
Die Kunst geht knapp nicht unter
I have faith in art alone and without it I am lost.
Often I shut paintings away in a dark storage space for many long years. What do paintings shut away in this manner do all that time until they give me a sign to remind me they exist? Nothing? Certainly not since they manage to muster enough strength to attract attention to themselves. After having freed a painting from the dark, I repaint it and a transition towards another state of being takes place.
Self-destruction has always been the most intimate and sublime aim of art whose vanity thus becomes visible. However strong the attack and whatever its success in achieving its aims, art will survive its own ruin.
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