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RE: 🎨GALLERY TREADWELL IN VIENNA
One of the most fucked up things that you can encounter, very interesting looking people, is to go to a techno or tech-house party or to an after party, and to just look at people... When you see the face of a man that haven't been sleeping for 3 or 4 days, his body cranked up with Joe Peshy knows what kinds of substances he has in his system and what goes through his mind. You can get really cool references from just visiting such places. All kinds of demons. We call them demons cause it looks like they are possessed by a demon of some sort. It's really fun. I had the same feeling when I saw these works of art. Just started wondering- what the fuck are these people going through
are you quite well? forgot to take your meds?
there is informed criticism, and there is opinion.
Unlike @whornung who has known Nick Treadwell for decades, I knew Nick only for a year, but I had known many of the artists he promoted and collected, often at the beginning of their careers; and I known some of them for decades myself, so I felt qualified to make an assessment based on my knowledge and experience, and can thus say that his choices, for the most part, were predictors of future greatness, which many of those artists in his collection have become. It's just the tip of the iceberg I recorded, the works he has could fill a museum. I think of him to be an icon of our genre, the post-surrealist movement, and sort of a bulwark in the stream of post-impressionism that so shaped the sixties (a curse we have yet to shake off almost 60 years later after Piero Manzoni and Merda d'artista of 1961).
There is a misunderstanding. I said fucked up things with no bad intention at all. I used that word cause it's far, Far ahead of what I usually see. By saying demons i mean.. It's very rare, profound and unique. I used the parties as a reference cause these works are not casual at all. It takes years to develop this kind of style and I fell in love with it. Still, I have to study the art of the 20th century, for now, I'm just scratching the surface. If you haven't created that post, don't know when I would discover it myself.
I Feel unusually stupid now :D
don't worry about it - after re-reading a few times, I started to get what you really meant. The art of these past 40+ years is in a sad state, and I lived through it, holding my breath hoping it goes away (post-impressionism).
Some 5 years ago I wrote an essay:
LAOKOON, ANTI-LAOKOON AND ANTI-KOONS - it was one of several, but there are links to some other of my blog posts elsewhere, and pertinent articles by others.
I will look for them. I haven't studied art in depth, the focus in school was more on earlier periods, even eras. I did a personal study on Giger at the end of last year. But that's it. But I've studied philosophy, and it seems that the things are... not just connected but greatly influencing one another. In the same period as post-impressionism and postmodernism are bringing strange things to the table. The crazy things are that we get back to ideas that are already known that don't work. Especially now...
here is another one I wrote:
https://artofthemystic.blogspot.com/2013/11/im-sick-of-pretending-i-dont-get-art.html
I needed to update it because many of the links were not working anymore.
Sweet! I will check them out! So many holes I have to fill in terms of art...