Cynthia Schwertsik » philosophy

collection of thoughts 2

Cynthia Schwertsik — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:51:29 +0000

I’m nothing.
I’ll always be nothing.
I can’t even wish to be something.
Aside from that, I’ve got all the world’s dreams inside me.

F.Pessoa found words for the the artist…

thoughts…

Cynthia Schwertsik — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:07:05 +0000

I think more than anything else I’m just an extension of certain practices, minimalism or conceptualism, that I am developing areas I think were not totally dealt with. I don’t like this idea of having to undermine your ancestors, of ridiculing them, undermining them, and making less out of them. I think we’re part of a historical process and I think that this attitude that you have to murder your father in order to start something new is bullshit. We are part of this culture, we don’t come from outer space, so whatever I do is already something that has entered my brain from some other sources and is then synthesized into something new. I respect my elders and I learn from them. There’s nothing wrong
with accepting that. I’m secure enough to accept those influences. I don’t have anxiety about originality, I really don’t.
an Interview with Felix Gonzalez-Torres by Robert Storr

all the thoughts that find words, after they found pictures? or how to describe what your heart already knows?

oberwart OHO !

Cynthia Schwertsik — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:49:12 +0000

a pair of stockings – that were used in a film – made their way to the white wash – now they look like a requisite – they might stand all by themselves!

and again – shoes! awesome – there was something about them, but she didn’t want to tell… so there they are covering the mistery…

WAYS OF SEEING

Cynthia Schwertsik — Tue, 25 May 2010 14:01:14 +0000

I am reading John Berger & I am impressed – about the point of view I am taking while I am painting…

… But the essential way of seeing women, the essential use to which their images are put, has not changed. Women are depicted in a quite different way from men – not only because the feminine is different from the masculine – but because the ‘ideal’ spectator is always assumed to be male and the image of the woman is designed to flatter him. If you have any doubt about that this is so, make the following experiment. Choose an image of a traditional nude. Transform the woman into a man. Either in your mind’s eye or by drawing on the reproduction. Then notice the violence which that transformation does. Not to the image, but to the assumptions of a likely viewer.

continuous distraction

Cynthia Schwertsik — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:49:30 +0000

it seems like life is continuously producing distraction – so it is very hard to concentrate & stick with the things you want to develop – I wanted to figure out a specific touch / a precise move – however to call it in words – it is meant to be put in colors & light – anyway, I was getting there … but my son got scarlet fever – back in the studio the electricity broke down & I am saving my paintings from the dust

life – all the material involved – got in conflict with ideas & ideals again!

it is like in the game: 3 steps ahead… back to start

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I was just touched by this…

Cynthia Schwertsik — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:13:23 +0000

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
Charlie Chaplin

I heard a quote – a piano player – she said she is not happy with her reputation as “perfekt” – she relates more to something charlie chaplin said: life is so short, we never get the chance to be anything but amateurs… – I wanted to find this quote – sure – internet… so I found many more…

this one is what I am trying to live up to – - - this is what I wish my art to become…

I don’t quite get back into life in the city…

Cynthia Schwertsik — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:09:59 +0000

I feel like sticking my head into a bucket & wait till things sort themselves out – but I guess it wont really happen?!?

well so I better get over that blues & start working

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another day over & deeper in debt…

Cynthia Schwertsik — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:48:43 +0000

there are day’s when I feel the 16 tons that have to be moved – for whatever reason – & I’m exhausted, but we all have to carry some of it & well … I feel better if I at least tried to carry my part on my own, and didn’t trick somebody else into doing it for me, & so here I am smiling again…

BLANCHIER

Cynthia Schwertsik — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:38:24 +0000

white wash

in France many people wanted me to wash their kids – I’m still trying to find out if they found their children so dirty or if they rather wanted to threaten them with a wash?

in Berlin there was a fair amount of people who proposed to white wash their souls – I’m ready to do that any time – if you can give that soul to me in a visible contraption….

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Pablo Picasso

so how about some white wash to see things in a different sort of light…

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2016060&id=1310472476&l=9a6874422a

FRENCH WHITE WASH

Blanchir

Vous êtes cordialement invitée à ramener des choses personnelles.
Toutes, que soit besoins d’une blanchissage :
- des journaliers, d’argent, des chemises, des chaussures, des âmes et
d’autres bien insaisissables sera à coup sûr sans tache et blanc.
Votre linge blanc vous pouvez venir chercher après les faire sécher
et sur demande sera signé par l’artiste.
Cynthia Schwertsik : http: // salon-beautyfree.klingt.org

http://www.monthelon.org

… SEEK MY FACE… John UPDIKE

Cynthia Schwertsik — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:37:51 +0000

theese words – about modern art- they touch my heart…

They affect me, these literalist sculptures. They tell us something about being human – our vulnerability, mostly. Just our skins – so bald, so easy to puncture…

Dissolving the image … and theres nowhere left to go but parody. … it seems that art has to fumble not to be decadent, it has to be just on the cusp of possible, or we cant’t respond to it as something – heartfelt – it has to be about us, just a skin away from being nothing…. tumbling back into the radiance

about – art rides on money ?

… how can you put them on your wall with a straight face? …

…. “I suppose,… it could be argued that art has no obligation to honor the concept of ownership. It shouldn’t be owned, it should just be.”

“Well, who is going to pay for it to be? What is the point of its just being, if all it does is express the grudges and neuroses of the artist? Where is the transaction?”

white wash

Cynthia Schwertsik — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:14:38 +0000

white wash service nr.15 http://www.monthelon.org

Berlin – Museum der Unerhörten Dinge

white wash
service nr. 14

here people definitly loved it!
all sorts of people came to join in and find out what it is about – so there was much to talk about…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN0S9USwEzQ