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Jackson Pollock - Painting Number 19 

“Art today, we are constantly being told, is about ideas rather than objects. Painting has been reduced to a marginal, niche activity, while ‘expression’, the working out of feelings through art, is about as ‘out’ as it possibly could be. [...]

His [ Jackson Pollock’s] work’s aspiration towards total freedom is synchronous with, and to a degree precipitated, the great opening up of the human spirit, the democratisation of self-expression, that began in the 1950s and is still going on today.

[...] Pollock’s tragic personality [...] is intrinsic to the way we see his work. Like van Gogh he is one of those artists who we feel sacrificed themselves for their art, to whom we feel a kind of gratitude for what they were able to bring back from the troubled extremities of the human soul; a gratitude that is romantic, but not entirely unwarranted. Pollock’s work doesn’t shock the way it once did. Most of us would now love to have a Pollock in our sitting room. Yet it continues to ask powerful questions about the limits of human expression, aspiration and perception – questions the rest of us are just beginning to get to grips with.”   

Der, den ich liebe Hat mir gesagt Daß er mich braucht.

Darum Gebe ich auf mich acht Sehe auf meinen Weg und Fürchte von jedem Regentropfen Daß er mich erschlagen könnte.

LA Battle, (2015) encre et fusain sur papier & Paréidolie 0, (2014) Feutres et marqueurs noirs sur papier by Abdelkader Benchamma 

Inspired by visual scenarios that come from reflections on physical reality and space, Abdelkader Benchamma’s work is related to a practice of the original wall drawing. In his exhibitions, he creates huge murals that alter and disrupt our relationship to and our perception of space.

Irises by Vincent van Gogh