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Marcel Buehler
Sentimental Journey through my Mind - A Compiled Opus
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Social systems, to which art exemplarily belongs to, react with an observable constancy on ruptures. These are exclusions, disciplining and changes, and respectively an adjustment of the particular system. As soon as new vocabulary is introduced to a discourse, code, context etc., as soon as it is used, the process of a paradigm change begins, and thus deprives the vocabulary of its novelty and consequently makes it common property. However, this only works if the innovations are strong enough to be perceived at all and serve the purpose to present facts better than the original vocabulary and lets it no longer appear adequately.(1)
And yet, if one observes “innovations” attentively, it can be noticed that in general they deal with developments that are deeply embedded in a tightly historical and social network. So art which is passed on – because as an activator of a paradigm shift its considered to be of great social value – becomes an art of adaptation, acquirement and not least an art of resumption of ideas. “The New” becomes in-existent in it, the art becomes an “old” statement within a contemporary, accepted habit. At the same time, the introduction of an innovation in the art system leads, even with delay on the actual introduction, to a medial hype and a questionable apotheosis of the artist concerned. For this very reason, my artistic work is superposed by the term commentary, and thus, comments on history of art and respectively on important works of visual art constitute an essential element of his artistic work.
These are the basic prerequisites of my work and will be put together in the “Sentimental Journey” in the form of a collaged essay, an essay made of about numerous small scale collages.
The project's title “Sentimental Journey through my Mind” alludes, together with the subtitle “a compiled Opus” to four chapters (that will be dedicated to each of the issues of “innovation”, “adaptation”, “apotheosis” and “comment”), because usually a compiled piece is understood as a newly arranged collection of results, adaptationed from various coherences: a collage. The Apotheosis of human beings and especially of the artist finds its ironic comment in the travel through his brains, the “treasury of the immaculate idea”.
(1) Richard Rorty: Contingency, Irony and Solidarity, 5th edition, Frankfurt/Main, 1999.
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