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My concern is not the misery of the world. I dont want to be cynical, but we are not going to protect art. The more cultural protectionism we enact, the more waste we have, the more false successes,false promotions there are. It puts us in the marketing realm of culture ... To put it naively, the pretension of art shocks me. And it is hard to escape, it did not happen overnight. Art was turned into something pretentious with the will to transcend the world, to give an exceptional, sublime form to things. Art has become an argument for mental prowess. The mental racket run by art and the discourse on art is considerable. I do not want anyone to make me say that art is finished, dead. That is not true. Art does nor die because there is no more arc, it dies because there is too much. The excess of reality disheartens me as does the excess of art when it imposes itself as reality. Jane Baudrillard text quoted from The Conspiracy of Art 2005
Posted on: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 22:04:37 +0000

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