Sachgebiete

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56 pp. softbound.

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Good to very good condition, small signs of wear.- SIGNED by the author, dedicated to Irmelin Nohal. (Paris Bar, Berlin). Dated: Berlin 06. Rare catalogue. / ?It would seem that we are driven intuitively towards beauty: Clean aesthetics fascinate us with their symmetry, clarity and immediate transparency. The intuitive appears to be some- thing natural, but is it nature, or in reality the result of a culture that bases itself on the ideology that we are all in agreement, and which we live our lives according to, and which we continue to read the world in relation to? Ideologies introduce us to, and steer us toward goals chosen by society's institutions, or- ganizations and structures. We understand ourselves and the world that we are part of, through habit and tradition, without actually thinking about their ideological foundation. We are met daily by a constant and overwhelming multitude of forms, images, objects and statements, and we take in as much as possible of these visual, physical, auditory and liter- ary impressions based on the ground rules supplied to us through the way we were raised and educated, and the intellect and personality of the environment we live in. Our individual and collective references are thus the most important element of everything we seek and everything we create in our lives. The continuous exchange between nature and civilization creates the overall story - the narration - that is the basis for the progressive linearity our ideology is based on. Doubt and misunderstanding are, in our culture, not recognized as important and worthy parameters for the development of society, and every break from the established ideology is immedi- ately 'repaired' and reconstructed. Abstraction, and maybe even subversion, of established opinions about well known symbols and concepts from our cultural history, as well as the contemporary, make us conscious of our references and ideological belonging, and demand more that we read meaning into the situations than that we interpret them using a metaphorical system. These formulaic routes make abstraction unavoidable: through ab- straction, one becomes aware of the choice of reference that one really must take in order to create development, experience and opinion in a world of vague and distant impressions and expressions. We seek beauty in all that is around us, in the revered and in the most trivial, in objects and situations. As a direct response to the accepted notion of the beauty of an object or a moment, we see ourselves in relation to that which we experience, and let it colour how we see things. The mental images turn inward and the personal becomes the parameter that alters our focus away from that which is known to that which is a mere model of what could be. The established ideology should instead be seen as a constructed, imaginary representation which we humans have created out of our real lives.? (Jesper N. Jørgensen. Curator. Copenhagen) ISBN 848776030288