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Ante Kustre
and collective future consciousness, which
took 10, 20 or 30 years to reach the address
and be read and understood. It is surprising
and inexplicable to me but also fascinating and
revitalizing. Creating something that did not
exist before and in a new medium, or a
combination of media, always leads to a sense
of happiness, anxiety even. This living child in
the artist is delighted with the new toy, the
game itself, or the good result in it. It should
be; artists are still enfantes terribles, right ?!
An adult in the artist, with knowledge and
experience, will often come to terms with
reconsideration or deconstruction of an
already existing one, which by his
overwhelming moment mumble and provoke
new combinations of old codes.
So in my opus there are a lot of hybrid
creations: verbal, pictorial, photographic ...
Light, hilarious, and fluid freedom in the
postmodern society, where everything goes (to
put everything in place?) is too seductive to
resist her. So, I turn to the global supermarket
of ideas and signifiers but never come out of it
with a stuffed basket. Measure matters!
Sometimes I also play the role of ekleptic; the
hybrid of Picasso's "real artist who does not
borrow but steals from other artists" and
kleptomaniac. I do that for easier, because one
of my motto is, "I will accept every good idea,
even if it was my own." But at the end of the
work process, I see that my originality always
comes out of my work, as a source from the
earth. This clean water is the most important!
The role of artist in today's society has and has
not changed, as the world has and has not
changed. The artists have become far more
mobile, their visibility is greater and the
amount of art on the planet has grown
enormously. Thus the conceptual work of the
Croatian artist L Galeta " Noart Earth Day",
made 2008., makes a lot of sense today,
tho