PRESENT FUTURE

I have seen more art in houses than in theatres, art galleries or in any concert room.
But both an official and not official culture exist: the first one is made of intelligence demanded to sell knowledge to the people through the traditional media, which we are authorised to believe in; the other culture (the ones not in tune and amplified by the traditional media) does not exist because nobody is allowed to believe in it.
Who ever falls in the first hypothesis is officially recognized as a member of the human culture; whoever falls in the other hypothesis is out.
For this reason the artists in the recent past and more then ever in the future present are tempt to create more and more provoking art as time goes by. Art that expresses a distorted view of the realty.
I think that it is time to put an end to this.
I think that the pure provoking in art was a good thing and had good effects in trying to make people understand how tired we are of being ignored. But I also think that at this point we have shown it enough.

Furthermore, this has come to create a repulsion sense from the public opinion towards the contemporary art and the artist himself: the majority of people think contemporary art is boring and they are probably right considering that we have done much to come to this ourselves.
I hope that we all understand the urgency and hope that we will use the knowledge we acquired during the past years to stretch out a new beauty concept; I hope that we will make ourselves more useful to the general society ; I hope that we will be able to help people live better in a more honest and conscious way showing them the necessity and the beauty of honesty.
This is the wish that I want to address to all artists that wanted to join this project and I hope that in it they will find in it their new home were to develop a new starch out, concept and codes of intelligence and beauty.

To all of us I wish to be able to use their own wish and will and intelligence to discern what is right and what is wrong.

I am sure we all need love.. or at least I hope so.

Bjorkstrand