Exhibition views (12-18.9.2016)

VERBOTEN FÜR GLAÜBIGE

INTERDIT AUX CROYANTS

NO ENTRY FOR BELIEVERS

VERBODEN VOOR GELOVIGEN

@ BLANCO, Ghent, Belgium

[…] whenever a community or a powerful section of a community, or a government of any kind, attempts to dictate to the artist what he is to do, Art either entirely vanishes, or becomes stereotyped, or degenerates into a low and ignoble form of craft. A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want. Indeed, the moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist, and becomes a dull or an amusing craftsman, an honest or a dishonest tradesman. He has no further claim to be considered as an artist. Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known […]

Oscar Wilde 1891 – The Soul of Man under Socialism