Wunderkammer no. 1 Painting

A rarity cabinet is what you think of during the covid virus epidemy where societies struggle to protect themselves and the other societies for spreeding of this disease. I created this painting in February 2020, before the COVID-19 hit Europe, US and the rest of the world hard. Of cause my idea (and I think the philosophical movement of Kant and followers is a valid and convincing interpretation of our world which is stronger than what media tell us), in the time of Corona Virus and people "working from home". But what happens in these homes, was actually inspired from Wuhan. So the idea of this painting is that beside all evidence based statistics, beside materialism, and physicalism, in the end what matters is idealisme and the notion of percieving the world. Yes as Cezanne suggest our mental models 'take on form'. Some name it the hard problem of conciousness. But it think it is otherwise. There is no real problem with consicousness, we all follow that, and understand how it works. No the hard problem actually is the hard problem of evidence. Because, where do it come from, and by which validity? We are stormed with statistics every day, telling us the excact number of people hospitalized, in respirators, death, and number of peoples infected by this terrible COVID-19 virus. The Danish novelist J.P.Jacobsen wrote a novel: The plague in Bergamo (Pesten i Bergamo) 100 years ago about a plague where we now have the COVID-19, maybe caused by a soocer match between Atalanta (from Bergamo) and Valencia. 4000 supporterts from Bergamo joined that match which was arranged in Milano. Unfortunately, many got the COVID-19, and the consequences with many old people, in one of the most wealthy parts of Europa, all of us know. The same super spread of the virus came from one or more after ski bars in Ischgl in Austria. But why is it so that we live in a modern world, but the authorities do not provide us the the real numbers (in time)? Why do authorities show up on televison screens like the inquisition? J.P. Jacobsen wanted us to understand that religios was not a proper way to combate the plaugue. But in our (still not) modern world the only thing we can do in Wuhan, Copenhagen, India, New York, UK, Germany, France etc. is to stay in our appartments or houses, and wait until this new plague has lost its momentum. Wunderkammer is this new place where all of us are trying to survive. There are colors, because this new situation, despite many tragical stories also has a new potential. Now we understand why we want this crisis to end, why we want to go back to our festivals (Roskilde festival and other festivals), why we need to do this, in order to protect the weak and old people. It is like a war, but now everything is a question of moral. And that is what I think about this painting named Wunderkammer. Because, how can we percieve the world, if we are livining in a Wunderkammer? But since J.P. Jacobsen argued that modernism (materialism) and physicalism (evidence based knowledge) was the learning from the plagues in Bergamo in 1880, I wonder (or wunder) wheather we now are experiencing a man made disaster which could have been actually combated earlier, I mean in Denmark they decided to change strategy from containment to 'the virus is all around', arguing that the plague is here, and we cannot identify the 'super spreaders' any longer. Argument, maybe due to lack of test capacity... As an expressionist painter, as a citizen living in a wunderkammer (and I am very comfortable with that), I think modernism has failed (as Latour claimed), I thing evidence is weak, and I think spirituality and idealism maybe is the best practice now we are all living (not in a yellow submarine), but the wunderkammer tell us that there are things which are more important than others. So wunderkammer is simply an interpretation of a world in which 'being' is more important than 'evidence'. Goodby to modernity (and J.P. Jacobsen), we have never been modern, and welcome to Cezanne and his way of solving the hard problem of consiciousness!

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:19.7 W x 27.6 H x 0.6 D in

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