20090115

the authenticity of the origins

one week ago we were walking through the halls of tel aviv museum of art. we discovered the installation of GIL SHACHAR. astonishingly we saw some works with paint brushes sticking out of heads in different variations:

so we were forced to remember this one sculpture we wanted to create for the GEDANKENHIT-project. the sculpture would be called "MALERISCHE EXPLOSION", we had already prepared scatches long time ago:


and even created the desk for the artist to be seated at in 3D:

we knew it would look at least as porcelain as the sculpture of JEFF KOONS with his wife ILONA STADLER, as high resolution as the ones of RON MUECK. not because we had any interest to copy any kind of their aesthetics. nor did we have them consciously in mind. without no reason, once, in 2005 this sculpture appeared in our head - just like that. that time it was evident enough to become part of the GEDANKENHIT-object-series one day. and then, suddenly, one week ago, we walk into this museum. it seemed someone had cut out a part of our "own" vision and materialized it already. this discovery caused a mixed feeling between "in fact thoughts just by seeing them seem to materialize", "well, but it doesn’t look as porcelain as it was planned" and "too bad we are always so slow with the serious things". will we ever be able to proof the aboriginal authenticity of our vision when it should come to realize the "MALERISCHE EXPLOSION" one day? Finally, when we left the halls of the museum some very artistic cats happened to be. They integrated naturally and perfectly pure into the artificial scenery: