e-mail noart No1

by ivan ladislav galeta

 

 

Poštovani,

 

 

Molim vas nemojte se uznemiriti što me evo opet. Vjerujte, sve smo poduzeli da nam se Vladan svakako javi, ali da nam se ne dogodi onaj

globalno-prošireni nesporazum.

 

Ovom prigodom, umjesto serije e-mailart koja je naprasno završila četrdesetosmim brojem, otvaram novu, tako zvanu e-mail noart.

 

Ovim prvim e-mail noart om No1  

 

predlažem 29. veljače kao dan suzdržavanja od umjetničkog stvaralaštva na planetu Zemlja,

 

pod nazivom:

NOART EARTH DAY

www.noartearthday.com/

 

 „Ima velikih čina, kao što je kamena sjekira ili izum par­noga stroja ili pletenje prve košare. Ima malih čina, kao što je gradnja jedne kuće, rezbarenja jedne frule, ima nehotič­nih očitovanja kao što je dah i tjeranje komarca koji noću zuji. Ima zaigranih i bezbrižnih čina kao kad se baci ka­menčić u more ili kad se zviždi ili otrgne cvijet. Ali nema nijednoga tako malog čina koji se nije dogodio u ime cije­loga čovječanstva, za sva vremena, jednom za svagda i za cijelo čovječanstvo. Svaki čin odjekuje u svijetu i taj se od­jek čuje u univerzumu tisućama godina i nikad ne zamre.“

                                           (Béla Hamvas: Scientia sacra I-III, str. 165, Ceres 1995, prev.Jadranka Damjanov)

 

 

 

 

S poštovanjem,

Ivan Ladislav Galeta

Kraj Gornji

05.travnja (1722).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Sir or Madam,

 

 

Please don’t get upset about my being here again. Believe me, we did

our best to have Vladan get in touch with us, but not in that rather global and extended way.

 

On this occasion, instead of the series e-mailart that finished abruptly with the forty-eighth number, I am starting up a new series, called e-mail noart.

 

In this first e-mail noart in the series, No1,

 

I propose February 29 as a day of abstention from all kinds of creative art on Planet Earth

 

to be entitled

NOART EARTH DAY

www.noartearthday.com/

 

There are some great deeds, such as the stone axe, the invention of the steam engine, the weaving of the first basket. There are little deeds, such as the construction of the first house, the carving of a flute, there are involuntary responses like driving away the mosquito that buzzes in the night.  There are playful and carefree deeds like throwing a pebble into the sea or whistling or plucking off a flower head.  But there is no deed so small that it does not happen in the name of the whole of mankind, for all times, once and forever and for the whole of mankind  Every deed reverberates in the world and this reverberation will be heard in the universe for thousands of years and will never die down.

 (Bela Hamvas: Scientia sacra I-III, p. 165, Ceres 1995, from the Croatian translation of Jadranka Damjanov).

 

 

 

Yours faithfully,

Ivan Ladislav Galeta

Kraj Gornji

5th April (1722)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

„Svaki čin kreacije prvenstveno je čin razaranja.“

                                                                     Pablo Picasso

 

 

Obzirom da si danas svatko može uzeti pravo biti umjetnicom ili umjetnikom, zato čak nije potrebna ni posebna naobrazba, u zadnje vrijeme postaje zabrinjavajućom činjenica kako isto tako svatko može smatrati da upravo njezina/njegova djela zaslužuju biti sačuvana za budućnost, čak i svojim cjelokupnim opusom.

Drugi razlog smatram još delikatnijim, naime, u posljednje su se vrijeme znatno počeli „napuštati“ atelijerski prostori u kojima je stvaralaštvo postalo ne samo „klaustrofobično“, već se došlo do spoznaje kako rad s neprirodnim, čak i toksičnim materijalima sve više ugrožava zdravlje i duh. I tako je krenuo „izlazak na svježi zrak“  gdje se malo pomalo omasovila,  tako zvana, „landartistička  aktivnost“, koja je svojom neobuzdanom kreativnom „slobodom“ uzela tolikog maha, da ponegdje poprima i zabrinjavajuće razmjere u što se možemo uvjeriti i na internetskim stranicama.

I ne ulazeći ovdje u diskusiju vrednovanja, je li je neki umjetnički proizvod remek djelo, što je u ovom kontekstu sasvim nevažno, bojim se ako nastavimo s ovim umjetničkim „uljepšavanjem“ netaknute prirode kao i masovnim nagomilavanjem umjetničkih proizvoda, koji sami po sebi povlače izgradnju i adekvatnih „deponija“ za njihovo odlaganje, da ćemo uskoro skončati kao i civilizacija Rapa Nuia.

 

 

 

Ivan Ladislav Galeta

Objavljeno na 

Sustainability and Contemporary Art: Exit or Activism?
International Symposium at CEU Budapest 29 February 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction."

                                                            Pablo Picasso

 

 

Because today anyone can claim the right to be an artist, no special training  even being required, in recent times there has been a worrying trend for everyone to think that it is exactly their works that need to be preserved for the future, indeed, in the whole of their oeuvres.

I think the second reason even more delicate, because in recent times there has been a mass exodus from the spaces of studios, in which not only has creative work become claustrophobic but where it has been understood that working with unnatural and indeed toxic materials tends to jeopardise health and sanity.   And so getting out into the fresh air got under way, with what is called land art becoming little by little a mass activity, and, in its unbridled creative freedom, achieving such momentum that it will occasionally take on troublesome proportions, as you can easily find out on internet sites.

And without going into any discussion about evaluation, about whether some art product is a masterpiece, which in this context is absolutely unimportant, I am afraid that if we go on with this artistic embellishment of unspoiled nature and with the mass accumulation of art products, which inherently bring in their train the construction of suitable depositories for their storage, we shall soon expire like the civilisation of Rapa Nui.

 

 

 

Ivan Ladislav Galeta

published at

Sustainability and Contemporary Art: Exit or Activism?
International Symposium at CEU Budapest 29 February 2008