"Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it." ~ Roy Lichtenstein
"Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things but to create a world of his own lines on paper." ~ Milan Kundera
"You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work of art - sculpture or painting - forces your eye." ~ Clement Greenberg
Na gisteren de opening van het Haagse Pantheon der schrijvers door Harry Mulisch meegevierd te hebben, waaiden we vandaag uit op de afscheidstentoonstelling, Eb & vloed, van Heerenveens ereburger Thom Mercuur in Museum Belvédère.
"[...] for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray! ~ Alberto Giacometti
"Alles voor de Kunst" was het motto dat Wim van Krimpen, directeur van het Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, debuterend galerieopweg meegaf tijdens haar presentatie met een nooit eerder vertoonde 'hoedenplanktentoonstelling' PRELUDE op de kunstbeurs ArtRotterdam in februari 2007.
NPOX-festival. Première van Bert Kommerij's film FLICK RADIO, Hilversum 2007