has been for sale for some time, as you have seen. The maintenance and ongoing development to keep our non-profit and idealistic platform for contemporary art running and safe from hackers etc. costs money that is no longer there. Because of small investments that are necessary now and the running costs, we will have to shut down with a heavy heart at the beginning of summer on June 21.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”-rwe.
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I bought a low budget photo canvas of New York and a mass produced rug and started to paint. This personal painting forces the viewer to deal with this dialectic duality.
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This painting is meant as a reflection of today’society. Constantly looking in the mirror, the mirror can be seen as a symbol of individualism growing “sick”. Today, one can see this tendency in our culture with reality stars, cultivation of celebrities in the media, all focusing on the individual and their ego. The celebrity is a form of production, a shallow spectacle of a role and life style.
