Roots : “A stormy madness hitting artists”
The matter is recurring in the Boz and will constitute a chain which strongest link will be a “star killer” whom project will be quite witted : kill artists to free their works. The lattest, duly demonized and sent off without any directions, will happen, in the end of the track, to confront Future (a character in his whole) in a titanic clash during the Great War. In fact, it’s in the Great Commentary Book that the metaphor finds its whole meaning : setting the enigma of “a representation of void” meant as the only shape fitting Transcendence.
October 9th, 2006 at 12:12 pm
[…] Contemporary art bordered on insolence. A wind of madness had struck artists. Their works had become hermetic, provocative, often opportunist, if not plainly decorative. It was an infamous bric-a-brac. Both the worst and the best were in it. The whole thing, horizontally, in single file, without the shadow of a norm. In material, they channel-surfed like lunatics. From one fair to another. From one exhibition to another. From one sale to another. Always running lest they miss the latest trend. Not to mention the snobbery inherent in openings and of dubious pleasure. Andy Warhol had done a good job: with Pop Art, he had carried out the trick of creating a popular art for the elite. A paradox. […]