T h o m a s K e m p i n s k i C o n c e p t u a l A r t G a l l e r y
b l o g Collection 1965 - 4
April 18, 2024
My work is a matter of fundamental sounds (no joke intended) made as fully as possible, and I accept responsibility for nothing else. If people want to have headaches among the overtones, let them. And provide their own aspirin. (Samuel Beckett)
January 6, 2024
Try again. Fail again. Fail better. (S. Beckett)
December 24, 2023
Will our culture survive if it forgets Jesus? (Prof. L. Kołakowski, essay "Jesus ridiculed")
December 2, 2023
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own tastes. (Marcel Duchamp)
October 28, 2023
There will come a time when people will be mad, and when they see someone in his right mind, they will rise up against him saying: You are mad because you are not like us. (St. Anthony the Hermit). That time has just come.
October 1, 2023
Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or ‘dematerialized’ (Lucy Rowland Lippard)
September 18, 2023
The essence of art is the creation of meanings, and these are created in the mind of the creator. (Joseph Kosuth)
September 3, 2023
„If someone says his work is art, it’s art”. (Donald Judd)
July 28, 2023
Silence - the world's oldest prayer.
July 9, 2023
The logic of worldly success lies in delusion; in that strange mistake that our excellence depends on the thoughts, opinions and applause of other people. It is a strange existence, indeed, to live always in the imagination of someone else, as if that is the only place where one can finally obtain reality! (Thomas Merton, Seven Storey Mountain)
May 17, 2023
„There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.“ (Saint Benedict)
April 23, 2023
Neither Samuel Beckett nor Dante Alighieri. Only Saint Benedict.
March 09, 2023
„The most interesting thing about artists is how they live“ (Marcel Duchamp)
January 30, 2023
Ora et labora - pray and work.
January 20, 2023
“When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing; no galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet it was a golden time, for then we had nothing to lose and a vision to gain. Today it is not quite the same. It is a time of tons
of verbiage, activity, and consumption. Which condition is better for the world at large I will not venture to discuss. But I do know that many who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where they can root and grow. We must all hope that they find them.” (Mark Rothko, 1969)
January 6, 2023
To come to taste everything,
do not want to taste something in nothing.
To come to the knowledge of everything,
Don't want to know something in nothing.
To come to the possession of everything,
don't want to possess something in nothing.
To arrive at being everything,
don't want to be something in nothing.