female nude LXVII Print - Limited Edition of 1

The purpose of art is not to give the appearance of things again, but the inner ... that is the true reality. Art is beauty and truth. The truth is not always clean ... The art first start there, where the simulation ends. If the world was understandable, there would be no art. We have art in order not to die of the truth. The artist is not a Sunday child in life. He has to accomplish that offers no guarantee for a stable and secure life. A hard task. He must know that all of his actions, feelings, thoughts is fine untouchable but solid material from which his work is created and therefore he is not free in life, but only in the art. Many works are thematically recognizable, they approach the unconscious actions and desires around the sexual desire, leading to a catharsis or therapeutic process. An artist can show things to see where other people fear. He can express in an expressive language, often a symbolic key to the subconscious. Other works approach our alienation in an inhospitable world. When I was seven years old, I knew I could do this forever ... It's a long road, with ups and downs, the fight with the angel of the art ... After more than thirty years, be productive, I dare say I'm an artist, often stopped, started again ... Now the work is in smaller size, the last year I have no studio and make everything in an area of twenty square meters. Most of the work caused by transforming pictures. This is done with chemicals so that the ink dissolves and fades. Then comes the process of painting with oil paint, ink and aging varnish. The works are often scanned and further edited on the computer, they turn in mounting photos, edited with digital collage techniques. Dominique Claerbout