Jannis Marwitz at Lucas Hirsch

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It's easy to talk about symbols, reference, history, they practically unfurl their themselves - but it is hard to talk about images. A painting stippled with rattails or tentacles don't lend well to consulting the familiar cultural texts - and there's no PR to relieve its burden. Ostensibly that's the critics role. Which, delight in the refusal. Just let the worms perforate the surface, your head. An interest in not having the Tarot Cards read. The worms, the painting, does the consumption, digestion. 

Jannis Marwitz at Lucas Hirsch

Jannis Marwitz at Lucas Hirsch

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I suppose the thing that keeps Bosch from being the first surrealist is his ostensible belief in some kind of truth to his images, biblical authority. But which the surrealists too -  under a new bible, manifesto - also led a new moralizing order. Maybe you can't paint humanoids and skulls without some small redistribution of sense. Which is why Tarot cards are such powerful meaning creation devices - humans are apophenic machines - seeing sense where there may be none, they create it for themselves. Art comes to resemble it.


See too: Caitlin Keogh at Bortolami

Kinke Kooi at Lucas Hirsch

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What one could consider eccentric art and its rarity. Despite an entire contingent of culture ostensibly pursuing it, something outside bounds of normalizing walls. Instead just hordes of art. These touch eccentricity, but appear not lost to it. It having to do with the current state of cultural affairs.