Do not set out to make Mexican art, American, Chinese or Russian art. Most of this is a mystery to me these days. Think in terms of Universality, the French word “naïve” means “ingenuity” and has been used for artists who paint for themselves. In dreams all is possible. In this alternate hell universe reality, no. The tangible line between the strange and the indifferent is a mystery to me.
The essence of a world in which images proliferate all around us. Pictures of aesthetic significance, You can see beauty in a rust drip. If your approach will not answer the big question you pose, your audience is likely to figure it out. If your methods are impossible, they will figure it out.
Nonsense art reduces the fear of the algebra.
Alberto Giacometti, I like weird artworks because of the image they present to me that have symbolic relation with the underworld, not influenced by the physical world as we human invariably do.
Humor is the supreme good, therefore its possessor is good.
If fringe art is irreverent and ironic, you are not asked to understand the range of scientific-artistic practice. People judge books by their covers. It's human nature.
The most important step in explaining something well is to figure out what’s the minimum amount of explanation required for readers to understand your overall piece. Futile and hopeless artworks help a lot, if you can't convince them, confuse them and experience the weird truth.
With Lao Tu [老兔] there is no message, just an experience. Nonsense art opting for humor are essential for a meaningful human existence. Edmond Gonfalon's work is coded with secret messages, because he is not a purely a visual artist.
Studies have shown that each year, our brain has to process about 1/20 more information than the year before. Nowadays, an average person processes roughly a ton of information per day, whereas 500 years ago, that would be the total amount of information consumed in a lifetime.
Art and science make the world a better place. Each artwork is a window into moments of respite that help us find the courage to persevere. Now it’s been solved, I don’t quite know all the answers, and I’m not even sure they do.
You only respond defensively to something you feel in some way is valid; otherwise you dismiss it as nonsense, which is weird.
Absurdity creates its own mindset, changing how people look at problems and make non sense pictures. Mental imagery regulate your breathing, heartbeat, and many more vital activities. The odd thing is that acting on the best guess available has turned out to work out rather well. Art makes it possible.
Absurd pictures have unique problems to many people in our era of media saturation. Who says beautiful and functional images have to make sense?
My take, narrative art is nonsense because we have replaced the epic with the ordinary, but it remains heroic. People focus on problems where absurdity is most salient. It's of zero value. Shim Moon-Seup artsworks reflect the practices of the key figures of dansaekhwa (单色画), an artistic movement in which the interaction with the work and the creative process take precedence over the visual result.
The power of simplicity is a myth. A question, asked in order to make a statement, that does not expect an answer, is a rhetorical question, maybe a meaningless image that does not expect an answer. Words are superfluous. Invisibility and irrelevance bring people together for the sake of happiness. Just do the thing.
Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying life models making sense of the absurd. Naive art is not a school or a trend.
Things change. The world changes. The moving time never ends, this is our future. Just as this page has changed over time.