Hommage an...
Abstract - Participants -
Visitors - Theory I - Theory
II
We invited all visitors to the installation Homage to... also to reflect
upon the sources of their inspiration and to communicate them to us.
Many of them cooperated, you can find the exhibition's introductiory
text and visitors' statements in the following.
And who Inspires YOU?
When inviting my artist colleagues to participate in the
Homage to... project, I asked the following questions:
- Who
influences me?
- Who or what inspired me to make a certain work
or body of work, where from did the idea derive?
- Which books
influenced me, which music, which movies?
- Which other artists
are (or simply: people) do I consult (and be it in thoughts
only) if I am caught up for a moment,
cannot
move on, am lost within a work - and all of a sudden:
things lighten up again?
However: "to be inspired" is more than just a phenomenon
that happens to artists only. Inspiration happens to everybody.
Thus our question: WHO INSPIRES YOU?
- Who encourages you?
- Who strengthens you, to live your life,
to do you work ?
- Who gives you orientation?
- Who serves you as an example?
Sometimes it is people - however sometimes it is also places,
things, nature. Sometimes it is a source of inspiration that
is important to many people. But sometimes it is seemingly:
insignificant, unpretentious, of importance only for yourself.
We Received Many Answers...
Here some answers our visitors gave us:
Homage to Romy Schneider... ... she, who knew no other condition... than:
high with joy or deathly... depressed...
M.
I like Karl Valentin (Valentin Frei) because he was a very weird
guy, just as myself.
Regards, Peter
Homage... to the new day! It should be beautiful,
full of joy and light! Filled with quietness, with harmony and
happiness.
Shaped by creative power and inspiration
homage to pieris world-best
pastries, that from now an will sweeten our lives... mmmmmmhmmmm
Homage to Rainer Werner Fassbinder.. Cheers Rainer, we'll see
us in any case! In eternal love, Gertraud
The simple guards the secret of the
permanent and great - wrote
Martin Heidegger in "Der Feldweg".
Werner F., Munich
Homage to the Dalai Lama... who possesses
great depth of insight and experience and is never shaken by
indignation...
WINNING LOSING WORRYING DELIGHTING
paul pas
The day is (never) without me.
P.
My homage is to... the desire and joy to live, that must accompany
the smile of every day... and the sun who shines in the
sky
Homage to Mrs. aitzenkolb.
[he] who stores his bicycle in the correct manner, is to say
down-the-ramp and
not too close to the conifers, will encounter relaxing residential
culture, will be able to live it in a pure form, will be promoted
by brunner and pampered by the superintendent in all days.
a homage
to Georg Baselitz
Homage to the typewriter. The resistance of its keys - contrary
to those of the keyboard - shows us: art is work.
jw
Homage to the Shilling [Austrian currency prior
to the Euro]: I miss you. now everything is just more expensive,
more universal
and interchangeable - perhaps that is a retro point of view,
maybe I am just nostalgic.
Do adults also loose a shoe in the
sea sometimes, the little son said to his
mother around six in the morning and then just
kept on sleeping.
My mama is lovely! And I
am naughty...
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