Das Gute in der schlechten Kunst
The new workshop for artists and all those who don’t want to become one, the course offers instructions for bad art and overcoming inner blockages
It always seems to be about creating something true and beautiful. To find an expression for the times, to immerse the personal in the general, to balance technical perfection with expressiveness in order to then create something incomparable – to create a work of art. The work itself should be unique, enigmatic and yet ambiguous. Like a visual magnet that you want to look at again and again without ever being able to understand it or fully grasp its inherent mystery. This is true art, according to the recipes for great works of art taught by experienced artists.
But what if you put the cart before the horse from the other side and the actor could even be assigned to an unskilled, non-artistic community and approach the matter in a completely uninformed and direct way with the tools of the unconscious? Or he/she would be an artist with an irrepressible thirst for adventure for something new, untamed, for borderline experiences and play on the chaotic, expansive landscapes of the anarchic pastures of the accidental. “You have to throw off the learned, the academic, the so and so”. In order to gain true artistic freedom, it is immediately a matter of dumping this manicured, superfluous ballast, facing up to the psychological blockades, even escaping the home stretch of one’s own personality,” says Lydia Karstadt. “Great art is created in bad art,” says Lydia Karstadt, ”when it is simply open to what is being created.”
With artists such as Joseph Beuys, art has opened up to people with the expanded concept of art, so why shouldn’t people now also open up to art? So let’s allow all arbitrary, spontaneous, thoughtless, contradictory and reckless strategies in production to happen, as automatically as possible, and watch what happens.
For “Bad Art Secrets”, the first workshop for bad art, we have been able to exclusively win over the enthusiastic lecturer Lydia Karstadt. Once a week, she will give us an introduction to the random and thoughtless production of bad art and then help us with the subsequent direct production. With a humorous, light and performative effect, the course: Bad Art Secrets is particularly suitable for self-taught artists and those interested in breaking down mental inhibitions and gaining self-confidence and creative experience.
An exhibition presentation is planned after the course.
Participation fee per course is: 30,- Euro/ including material of 10€ Euro
Every Monday from 18:45 in the Crystal Ball gallery
Registration by e-mail: crystalballberlin@gmail.com
or 0151- 55 910 099