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Ante Kustre
ART Habens
original, authentic being. I see surrogate as a
seductive bridge between existence and
nothingness, one is free and the other is paid, so it
could be said that, the smaller the actual human
need for it is smaller, the surrogate is more
expensive. It seems to me that the fear of the own
freedom and authentic living is the deepest reason
why the various surrogates have such a massive
response. By using them, people feed their own
vanity, the illusion that they are the lords of their
lives and destiny. By playing with these two levels
in my works, especially in collages and photo -
collages, I try to warn myself and others of the
dangers lurking on this path.
Yes, I have several. A few years ago I printed the
"Brothers in Arts" T-shirt and shared it with some
of my colleagues Regularly I use the most
democratized media of expression in my art, for
example: as an installation, at the exhibition "New
slogans for New age". Louis Bunuel, Sam
Peckinpah, and Akira Kurosawa are my older
brothers from the film world. Humor and the
surrealist process of first, master editing and
recording of the same scene with multiple cameras
of second, the poetics of movement in the frame of
third, are my constant inspiration and the
guidepost. The younger film brother is Lars von
Trier, with whom I share this range of complete
artisticity of the film form (his debut "Europe" ) to
his dirty approach to shooting at Dogma principles
( fe "Idiots" ). As hommage to the oldest
conceptual brother, Joseph Beuys , I will perform
this summer the perfor