Robert Smithson (1938-1973)
(copyright owners please read: p.s. at the bottom of this post, thank you)
This is the first posting of the thoughts from one of the greatest american artists: Robert Smithson. I post these thoughts to show how wide the perspective of this blog is and will be. Since we always perceive with all our senses, I'll try to give here some examples to interrelate all artforms, thinking, poetry and music to deepen the possibilities of our experience with art, music, philosophy and literature. Maybe listening is not listening, thinking is not thinking , seeing is not seeing, and tasting not tasting.
Perception is more likely a synergetic effect of all your senses. This very easy to experience, put on your your favorite HNW-record and see (!) what happens. Robert Smithson writes about art:
"Art works out the inexplicable. Contrary to affirmations of nature, art is inclined to semblance and masks, it flourishes on discrepancy. It sustains itself not on differentiation, but on dedifferentiation, not on creation but on decreation, not on nature but denaturalization, etc. Judgements and opinions in the area of art are doubtful murmurs in mental mud"
Robert Smithson,
Mirror Displacement on a Compost Heap 1969
(Düsseldorf, Germany)
(I have made the photo myself from the book "Slideworks" (Carlo Frua 1997, p. 124))
"Unity is a natural idea, that belongs more to life (also called reality) and not to the terrible dualities of great art. Unity has its origin in chaos, while duality has its origin in the cosmic. And every cosmic system is a false one, that at time slips into the chaos of nature. This falseness must be protected from the murky waters of life's truth. Nothing is more corruptible than truth"
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P.S. Dear copyright owners of this picture, please contact me, if you don't want to see your picture above in this context! Your picture will of course be instantly removed! Thank you. Smithson's thoughts are taken from the book "Slideworks"(Carlo Frua Italy 1997)
