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'East of Paradise'
de Lech Kowalski

(Visto no Indie, no Domingo passado - no King 2)

O Lech e sua maminska

Aborda a vida, o carácter cíclico da vida numa demonstração extra pessoal, ie a influência dos acontecimentos, mesmo que longínquos, no nosso devir e a nossa concretização própria dessa influência. Achei-lhe um paralelismo ao Beuys, naquela mania do feltro e da gordura e os tártaros e a Crimeia e o bombardeiro, concretizados na excursão do gigantesco bloco de mármore numa performance cujos detalhes já não me recordo. Ainda sobre Beuys,

"Creativity isn't the monopoly of artists. This is the crucial fact I've come to realise, and this broader concept of creativity is my concept of art. When I say everybody is an artist, I mean everybody can determine the content of life in his particular sphere, whether in painting, music, engineering, caring for the sick, the economy or whatever. All around us the fundamentals of life are crying out to be shaped or created. But our idea of culture is severely restricted because we've always applied it to art. The dilemma of museums and other cultural institutions stems from the fact that culture is such an isolated field, and that art is even more isolated: an ivory tower in the field of culture surrounded first by the whole complex of culture and education, and then by the media which are also part of culture. We have a restricted idea of culture which debases everything; and it is the debased concept of art that has forced museums into their present weak and isolated position."

Entrevista com Frans Hakk, 1979