Original and Copy

“While the object of Mondrian’s interest can be read from the original painting, the same could not be said for its copy.” A copy is a painting by all its properties, but its idea is outside the painting itself…” “If the original is worthless (like the “Harbingers of the Apocalypse”), does that imply that its copy is also worthless?… I consider the copies of the “Harbingers of the Apocalypse” to be more important than the original, although they do not differ at all.”     “I think that questions such as the relationship between original and copy, truth and falsehood, sense and nonsense, are legitimate subjects of philosophical consideration.  I believe that this paper (“A Philosophical Treatise on Absurdity”) could raise the question of the exclusivity of verbal language in philosophy” (from the “Moment” no.2, 1984)

Harbingers of the Apocalypse III

A Personal story Part 3 The Apocalypse One of the themes presented at the “Fragments” relates to the Harbingers of the Apocalypse story (Fig.01) which 1970 original, for some time now, became my computer background image (Fig.02). After being promoted into a masterpiece, copied and exhibited many times in the first half of 1980es the

Harbingers of the Apocalypse I

A Personal Story – Part 1 The Beginnings For a few years now this image has been my computer screen (Fig. 1) and the scull within it became my Google avatar (Fig. 2). As they say, even in my wildest dreams I never expected this would happen, and that is why I thought it might

Against Art

These are some documents and installation views of the exhibition “Against Art” by Goran Đorđević. It took place at the SKC Gallery,  Belgrade January 29-February 5, 1980 and seems to be inspired primarily by the ideas expressed his article “On the Class Character of Art” published 1976  in The Fox magazine No.3. that are articulated