{"uid":"MGOuOwdOdw8pdYhz","type":"artist","tags":["painting","video"],"group":"no","group_name":null,"project_title":"Transcendence of picture","summary":"\u201eIn June, Luiza\u2019s garden is in fullest bloom,\nIts non-existence kills, like an axe\u201c\n\nRecently, while reading a paper, I came across a short description of the theory of Walter Benjamin: \u201e\u2026In this analysis, Benjamin usually moves on the \u2018further-closer\u2019 scale.  Auratic art assumes that contact will be direct, almost intimate; but it also involves the sense of a certain distance, i.e. Timelessness. With non-auratic art (non-art), with what can be copied on a massive scale \u2013 it is the other way around: it destroys all distance (the possibility of transcendence). It belongs in the category of products that satisfy the low, mass need of the most banal, merchant-like POSSESSION\u201d.\n\tThe author of this critical text suggests that Benjamin\u2019s theory has become archaic and a bit senseless in the context of the new media and challenges which apply to the newest art. This opinion is, unfortunately, quite characteristic of the circles related to the so-called Modern Art and Critical Art. Theoreticians representing this group believe (mistakenly) that the value of contemporary art is determined by its involvement in social or political matters. This way, they reduce such art to the role of the mass media, which usually focus on temporary phenomena and daily matters. However, truly valuable art should strive for timelessness and transcendence.","space":"One wall up to 10 m long and 3 to 5 M high","artists_proposal":null,"members":[],"lang":"en","status":"ok","video_link_password":null,"video_link":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCACt9tmFkNIijlZPPdWA2FA","audio_link_password":null,"audio_link":null,"images_link_password":null,"images_link":null,"cellphone":null,"description":null,"estimated_budget":null,"complementary_info":null,"names":"Jan","surname":"Niksi\u0144ski","email":"jannix.art@icloud.com","dni_type":"Other","dni":"16.04.2020","address":"ul. Go\u0142awicka 7 m.65","city":"03-550 Warszawa","nacionality":"Poland","country_id":"182","birthdate":"1952-05-27T22:00:00.000Z","birthdate_2":"1952-05-27T22:00:00.000Z","telephone":"501678149","web":"www.niksinski.com"}