Günter Brus citations

Günter Brus, né le 27 septembre 1938 à Ardning, est un peintre autrichien. Il est un des fondateurs de l'actionnisme viennois, mouvement artistique célèbre pour ses "actions" radicales. Les actions d'abord inspirées de l'Action painting, mirent progressivement en scène le corps des artistes eux-mêmes ou celui d'assistants, dans des sortes de happenings. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. septembre 1938
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Günter Brus: Citations en anglais

“I hate people, who force their way through at traffic accidents to see blood. They…rape and dismember virgins, and have orgies.”

Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 25 (1962) (Brus,letter,January 1962;cited inVon der Aktions Malerai zum Aktionismus:Wien 1960-1965,op.cit., p. 194.)

“My body is the intention. My body is the event. My body is the result.”

Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 187 (1966)

“Writing without making mistakes is like vomiting hot air.”

Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 261 (2003)

“You become an artist to upset your family.”

Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 51 (Gunter Brus.Nach uns die Malflut!Pheoretische Poesien.Klagenfurt:Ritter Verlag,2003, p. 135)

“Art is gushing hot bile on the fields and harvesting the looks of nasty dwarfs.”

Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 216 (2003)

“My picture-poems are linguistic margins on visual atolls.”

Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 250 (2003)

“The pencil-stroke is like cutting into the heart.”

Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 8 (Gunter Brus Werkumkreisung,op.cit, p. 128.)

“Analogously to Arnulf Rainer′s ‘overpaintings’, and extending thse with my own actionistic resources, the artist′s head should be in the picture, should become one with the picture, and disappear in it.”

Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 12 (Gunter Brus inDie Schastrommel.Organ der österreichischen Exilregierung.Bolzano:ed. Gunter Brus,June 1972,no.8a, p. 57.)

“As a boy, I was extremely shy, certainly as a result of my upbringing. I was an expert blusher, and some of my harsh actions may echo this shyness by way of compensation.”

Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 51 (Gunter Brus in conversation with Johanna Schwanberg,graz,16 April 1997,in connection with an interview for the Spectrum section of the newspaper Die Presse, published in the issue of 26 April 1997 under the title Ich war Spezialist im Erroten, p. III.)

“Color will play no part in the art of future.”

Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 20

“Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth.”

Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 261 (2003)

“Being covered in white paint, you demonstrate behaviour intended to create a public nuisance, which did in fact cause offence to members of the public, and created a breach of the peace and public order.”

Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 14 (Cit.after LockerWiener Aktionismus.Der zertrümmerte Spiegel.Wien1960-1971,op.cit., p. 299.)

“Total actions are a further development of the happening and combine the elements of all art forms, painting music, literature, film, theatre, which have been so infected by the progressive process of cretinisation in our society that any examination of reality has become impossible using these means alone. Total actions are the unprejudiced examination of all the materials that make up reality. Total actions take place in a consciously delineated area of reality with deliberately selected materials. They are partial, dynamic occurrences in which the most varied materials and elements of reality are linked, swapped over, turn on their heads and destroyed. This procedure creates the occurrence. The actual nature of the occurrence depends on the composition of the material and actors′ unconscious tendencies. Anything may constitute the material: people, animals, plants, food, space, movement, noise, smells, light, fire, coldness, warmth, wind, dust, steam, gas, events, sport, all art forms and all art products. All the possibilities of the material are ruthlessly exhausted. As a result of the incalculable possibilities for choices that the material presents to the actor, he plunges into a concentrated whirl of action finds himself suddenly in a reality without barriers, performs actions resembling those of a madman, and avails himself of a fool′s privileges, which is probably not without significance for sensible people. Old art forms seek to reconstruct reality, total actions unfold within reality itself. Total actions are direct occurrences(direct art), not the repetition of an occurrence, a direct encounter between unconscious elements and reality(material). The actor performs and himself becomes material: stuttering, stammering, burbling, groaning, choking, shouting, screeching, laughing, spitting, biting, creeping, rolling about in the material.”

Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 166 (1966/1972)

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