What You See is What You See

 La penna di hu 

1987-2009

Wire frame construction

 Detail 1

Detail 2

Colourful structures without meaning and purpose - Frank Stella's new 3D works combining weight and solidity with a musical fluidity don't present any meaning or story - they only present monumental, colourful, structures:  "what you see is what you see". But what a joy to the eye and the senses, what a refreshing energy and dynamism.

The Reality of Photorealism

Dazwischen

2011

Oil on linen

282x400 cm

Detail

Details of life, details of the painting - both in a state of transition, without any meaning and purpose  -  and at the end all this adds up to a form, a story, a meaning.

New paintings of Jonathan Wateridge

Skin and Bone

Office Building in Bucharest

North Elevation

I am creating my website, and found some nice drawings worth putting here in the blog. This is a statement elevation of an Office building in Bucharest, Romania I made in 2008 that is about the separation of the skin and the bone of the structure. The elevation layer is like an envelope, independent of the structure and the function of the building, with its own meaning, its own artistic quality.

Structure is God

Concert of Péter Mátrai in Budapest

When God enters into the creative process, you sense the divine structure of the Universe.

This is how you feel if you listen to the concert or Peter Matrai on electric instruments. There is a clear structure of the whole performance: preface, treatment and epilogue. And there is the clear structure of every piece with composition, melody and rhythm which build up the whole circle until the catharsis at the end.

The preface: the 'Intervals' with its dynamism invites you to leave your everyday self and enter into the world of art, into the world of the artist.

Small etudes follow: atmosphere, memories, sequences of feelings and thoughts, all this with different and unusual electronic instruments, computer samples, new sounds and noises. The concentration is intense, every element has meaning and is part of the whole. This is the journey of a soul: in his past and present, in his feelings, in his love for music. The small pieces have concrete themes, and you enjoy the correspondence of the music with them. You smile, you enjoy, you feel the music, you feel what you are inspired to feel.

And then comes the epilogue, the 'In memoriam' piece to the memory of two architect-friends. This is a small theatre-performance with candles, staggering, brutal hits and noises, flame, fire and ashes at the end.

Catharsis is what you feel: this is life, this is all.