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in retrospect - 1995 Kajaani ,Finland
THE CONCEPT OF ART is broad and hard to define. It can symbolize
creativity and a personal
way to express oneself. To me, art is also synonymous to freedom
because today more than ever,
there are no limits to what an artist wishes to depict. There are no
longer cannons to confine her
or his inspiration, nor indeed where to exhibit, like this
nature-friendly and unique open air mu-
seum Lucien den Arend has contrived.
What is furthermore important is that I, the spectator, am also
free to look at a painting or in
this instance, at a sculpture. Why this feeling of liberty you may
ask: ‘because a particular figure
can intrigue me, revolt me, appeal to my sensitivity, or come to the
worst, leave me indifferent.’
To use a trendy idiom, art has become ‘interactive’. An object -
since the theme here is plastic
arts - may be an attempt by its author to produce something sublime,
another piece may convey
the artist’s anger to social injustice. Occasionally we come across
an obscene piece, its author
probably having a good reason to shock us, spectators.
Art, with a capital A, is an important common dominator in our
society, a link to share and
enjoy, no matter what our innermost esthetic or political beliefs
may be. If I mention politics,
which is so far removed from art (yet an art to me!), I do so
because in Bulgaria’s revival since the
fall of the Berlin wall, our numerous highly gifted sculptors,
painters or musicians, have played a
significant spiritual part, thus contributing to a better balanced
and tolerant society in the third
millennium.
SIMEON II R
catalogue design by Design Studio Hans Kentie BNO - Open publication - Free publishing - More bulgaria
preface to SEA, Black Sea North Sea, Bulgarian art along the
Drecht Banks - OPAM Sculpture Park