otto muehl
the canvas is replaced by the computer screen. the paintbrush, a round circle
O which with a click of the mouse becomes
smaller o or larger O.
the electro-painter creates a societal world-view using seen and imagined material.
working with material is the starting point of artistic development.
a childīs first creative material is its excrement ( sigmund freud ).
the air in the computer is thin, purified of the stench of life. itīs only when the artist, strengthened by working with material, reaches the point where thought and action are identical can he overwhelm the sterile art- machine.
painting with material is oriented towards a final product, towards the ideal picture, which doesnīt exist. just like the ideal partner in a couple relationship doesnīt exist.
the electrical marriage of photographed reality with electric-painting is the artistīs digital task.
the mechanically preconceived reality of the photograph and the color orgies of the electric painting transform the screen into a multi media firework.
the camera clicks when it takes a photo, the computer clicks when it saves a file, it burps when the old food is regurgitated to be chewed all over again.
collage is the meeting of two irreconcilable realities.
collage is the critical world-view showing the scandalous contradictions in the world and in human society. collage is the cuckooīs egg in the otherīs nest. collage is provocation drawn into the image. electric-painting collage makes the abscess burst. electric painting is the forefinger in the wound. electric painting electro-painting is infinitely continuable process painting.
electric painting is the electro magnetic swing of light.
the world is actually colorless. light doesnīt dance in colour it dances in a storm of different wavelngths. the eyes show us the dance of light in color. where the eye stops, the ear lets music ring out instead of color. the eye makes the color, the ear the tones, the nose the smells, the mouth likes things that taste good and everything that isnīt visible, audible, smellable is felt by touch.
the big bang reveals itself in the fire of the electric painting dance.
the goal of the electric painting collage is to make the big bang visible, audible, smellable and feelable.
the electro-painting-paradise comes from the power socket on the wall.
light is a signal, a greeting, a gift from the monstrous electric painter.
the big bang painter is the idolised star-player, star dancer, magnetic swinger, star-writer, first creator, etc.
the computer performs slave labor as a calculating machine. it becomes a policeman in wire-tapping operations against renitent citizens.
it beomes an enemy of humanity in judicial use.
electric painting turns the computer into a multi-medial creator.
objects, presented on the pedestal of art are "electrified".
a visitor to a museum touches a sleeping museum guard and asks, as the guard slowly opens his eyes:
"art or reality?"
guard: "art and reality!"
visitor: "direct art?"
guard: "yes, yes!"
a visitor touches the large glass.
a hot feeling, his hair stands on end, st. elmoīs fire crackling.
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