Projekt QuantenRausch
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Art is created outside the comfort zone.
The artists who leave it have a chance to be relevant, and there are many ways to leave this comfort zone. You can break with tradition and convention, which ensures attention for better or worse, but is rarely enough in the medium term. One can break with convention in favor of a new convention, technique, or point of view, which is usually more sustainable.
Or you can understand the constant destroying and reinventing as an artistic process, which is the most strenuous and long-term attitude for all involved, and also an exciting one.
This is where Klaus Haas comes in, painting virtually, merging art with architecture and installation with urban space, connecting theory with the work and the public with art, a tireless worker in the engine room of art and in the cockpit of social sculpture.
The concept of social sculpture, there it is again: few concepts are so often and so often mislabeled in the cultural field as social sculpture. That's no wonder, because the idea behind it is powerful. When Joseph Beuys shaped it in the 1970s, art discovered its relevance to society. Art can transform society, togetherness, democracy, that is the promise Beuys delivered through performances, happenings, installations and congresses. Art can enable society to participate in this process, that is the origin of "Everyone is an artist", the second most misused term in relation to Beuys. Klaus Haas is now probably really making social sculpture, he transforms and transforms and sometimes all the ideas slip away from him and take on a life of their own. But possibly that is socio-politically quite sustainable.
Dr. Marian Wild
The artists who leave it have a chance to be relevant, and there are many ways to leave this comfort zone. You can break with tradition and convention, which ensures attention for better or worse, but is rarely enough in the medium term. One can break with convention in favor of a new convention, technique, or point of view, which is usually more sustainable.
Or you can understand the constant destroying and reinventing as an artistic process, which is the most strenuous and long-term attitude for all involved, and also an exciting one.
This is where Klaus Haas comes in, painting virtually, merging art with architecture and installation with urban space, connecting theory with the work and the public with art, a tireless worker in the engine room of art and in the cockpit of social sculpture.
The concept of social sculpture, there it is again: few concepts are so often and so often mislabeled in the cultural field as social sculpture. That's no wonder, because the idea behind it is powerful. When Joseph Beuys shaped it in the 1970s, art discovered its relevance to society. Art can transform society, togetherness, democracy, that is the promise Beuys delivered through performances, happenings, installations and congresses. Art can enable society to participate in this process, that is the origin of "Everyone is an artist", the second most misused term in relation to Beuys. Klaus Haas is now probably really making social sculpture, he transforms and transforms and sometimes all the ideas slip away from him and take on a life of their own. But possibly that is socio-politically quite sustainable.
Dr. Marian Wild