KÜNSTLERHAUS

BETHANIEN

Künstler*innen

Joris van de Moortel

Belgium

Prologue; Some quotes or a little text, a little something, a little something about fantasy.

… I can’t figure how many times people have asked me; “where do you get all that fantasy  (reed: ideas)?” Well, it doesn’t drop like raindrops do, it’s not something you have or haven’t, you just need the ability to see it and to deal with it. Fantasy doesn’t function without a good injection of reality. The craft of imagination in which you need to direct your fantasy through observation and real sense in order to really grasp it and build something out of it. That’s what art does, I believe. Get a grip on this fantasy. No questions, no answers, in the crucial point of no return, the moment you decide to close it again and exhibit. The only world that makes this real hard-core subjective, individual decision-making still possible, where it is even needed, today, is the art world. It’s not even about questioning freedom, you just do it, you just can do it…

Epilogue; Either these words are quoted as mine, or not, I think it counts for many, and it’s something I feel as right, the words I picked up in bits from here and there, it doesn’t really matter. But the experience of it comes right out the studio. The shaker for a perfect cocktail of fantasy and reality.

STAY
01.03.2012 – 28.02.2013

EXHIBITION
18.01-10.02.2013