The very first entry -
Thursday, April 07, 2005, 14:15 - blog.
was today. For a long time now I have been writing on art on the side on my own laptop - this additional to all the mailing. Now, in January my laptop was stolen, without me having any backup – everything is gone, from texts that I have written or being in the making of, to those thinks mentioned above. So, now I have decided to put things that I write ( that I think might be interesting for other to read). I haven`t fully completed the whole thing yet, it is a construction site – but this will improve as we go along.
For starters I might introduce the title itself. It is stolen – more or less. There is a great sense of failure of communication in Raymond Carver’s universe. People does always seem to be saying more or trying to understand more than being said. He greatest – in my opinion anyway – short story is What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, a story of how to deal with love and how to formulate what we feel. Being a fan of belletristic literature – and criticism this is a title I can live with. for more info on belletristic criticism I would recoment Virginia Woolf’s essay “common Reader” (from 1925 and 1932). What I mean by this is, I guess, the common understand if this notion; criticism that is not that occupied with informing their readers about sources. I guess it is not a scholar term (I am not an scholar, I never was, and never will be persistent ), and one of the few I have commen up with from the academic side doing this is Roland Barthes.
Being Norwegian living in Leipzig, Germany and Reine, Lofoten/Norway – I guess those who pass by this site will be reading more about what is going on in Leipzig and Norway than not. Leipzig has a not that large scene – the art scene (including number of museums and institutions) are larger in Oslo although both cities are about 5 millions inhabitants. Leipzig have a nice little museum for contemporary art named the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst , and it is the only museum I know of being in the hands of only women on the artistic director side (Barbara Steiner being the Director, and the two curators being Julia Schäfer and Ilina Koralova). Behind gfzk there is no one, and then there is no one, and then there is some smaller non-for-profit, run-without-money institution. One of those are the Halle 14 , run by the federkiel collection/foundation (federkiel is a quill I guess – a pen made out of fether). The gallery scene on the other hand is stronger. The power gallery Eigen+Art (with artists as the Nicolai Brothers, Neo Rauch, Christine Hill – and Jörg Herold and Maix Mayer to mention), and also Dogenhaus is worthy to mention (with people like Tilo Schulz, Kaeseberg and Ati Maier and then some). Then due to the new Leipzig school of painting there is a few newer galleries likeGalerie Kleindienst , Galerie Post etc. Most of those dealing with mostly painting. The only new comer claiming to be dealing with other types of art is the Aspn galleri of Ms. Arne Linde – opening by the end of this month – I am curios. Arne is a critic turning gallerist, a trend that seems to support the current feeling of critics not only being underpaid but also not feared anymore (respected; yes, but have no power as Samuel Keller is quoted in Marc Spieglers article on art criticism in the newest The Art Newspaper).
Arne will be opening her Aspn on the 23th when all the above mentioned galleries ++ will open in new spaces in the Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei – a former cotton fabric, since beginning of the nineties (as the wall came down) artist ateliers and now also gallery scene and luxus apartments.
I hope you have fun reading this. lmt