I hate art.

I love art. Really. I have been asked why my blog is called ‘I Hate Art’ many times. The truth is: I do not love all art out there and foremost I am concerned about all those objects that are called art nowadays. I think somebody has to draw a line and say “That is bullshit. That’s not art. I hate it.”

Chuck Palahniuk, Andy Warhol and I

Lately I have been smelling a lot.

Pablo Picasso and Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a German philosopher. In his early work The Birth Of Tragedy Out Of The Spirit Of Music he invents the Apollonian-Dionysian Concept. This concept has great influence ever since in the field of art, literature and philosophy.

This essay is about the interrelations between the Apollonian-Dionysian Idea and the work of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso (1888-1973). Picasso read Nietzsche and was heavily inspired by his work. In this work I wish to visualize Nietzsche’s presence in Picasso’s paintings, especially in his ground-breaking work Les Demoiselles d’Avignon which introduced Primitivism and Cubism and therefore deliberate Abstraction.

Music/Life - Life/Music

Many people tend to abuse music. They violate it by listening but not acknowledging music. They do it just for distraction, not to have that uncomfortable anxious silence around.

I am telling you: music is more. It all starts, in the classic case, in a record store. You look around and grab CDs with appealing covers. The interesting thing here is, that you pick music by its cover.

Americanism Revealed

Americans are afraid. Americans are scared of everything. They are afraid of car crashes, germs, terrorism, guns, robbery, rape, dirt, smell, strangers, enemies, diseases, falling behind, God, body hair, communism, rejection and infection.

Marina Abramovic

Of course I saw the Abramovic show in the MoMA. I mean everybody wanted to see it. Tourists from all over the world stood in line (only the Tim Burton show was even more packed). I was quite impressed by the show. I did not stand in line to participate in her performance, but was utterly blown away by the intensity of her re-enacted performances featured in the show.

Rebirth

OK, this blog has become kind of run down, alienated piece of forgotten binary code. However, today I felt the urge to review my concept of the blog. In the past, this used to be a broadcasting tool for whatever did or did not come my mind. That made the posts pretty scattered and unpredictable.

Now, since I have some time over the summer, I will try to catch up on my writing and share my volatile thoughts and absurd findings with you.

Cheers.

M.I.A. - Born Free

One of the rather disturbing things I have recently seen.

Bei Nacht

Video Final Project

A FEW THINGS ABOUT ME AND YOU

Who are you?

Are you what you possess? Are you the product of your genes? Are you the sum of what you created? Do you know who you are? And I got one more question for you: Do you really want to know who you are?