[syndicate] On surrealism of desperate conjugation

[Alan Sondheim]

Was Matta Jewish? I knew Gordon Matta-Clarke through Laurie Anderson..
But that radicality is also questionable, look at Dali, although discarded 
- the deconstructive, yes, definitely, as long as not too much value 
placed on the problematic of the symbolic which is why Magritte drives me 
crazy - Alan


On Sun, 26 Sep 2004, Aliette Guibert wrote:

> The surrealism is not a tendency, it is a sensibility beyond its historic
> radical commitment, in particular visionary because it is the vision of a
> deconstructive naturalism in matter of human artefacts and nature themselves
> which build the main actor through the time and transcending the question of
> the truth by the shamanism as a multifield art performance.
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> Thus, they could say to you, Alan, welcome to the club!?
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> (I suggest that Matta was the last surrealist painter living until the third
> millennium; as he was the international mediator of the surrealism in New
> York at the time of the migrations of the Jews just at the dawn of the war
> and the counterpart, so he was also one of the bridges of time mediating two
> millenniums of visions... I had the honor to know him a bit, and just
> talking with him for a longer moment once, that is why I dare to speak to
> you about him as I have just seen your three links.)
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