A world of Walking Dead People

After reading this blog called Always be an An Emerging Artist, from  Daniel Galas, a New York artist I´ve just met, I remembered the exhibit about the Stein Family that  has just closed its doors at the Grand Palais in Paris. The statement of Galas, comparing  Leonardo Da Vinci´s work and that of Chris Johanson (who works  themes such as "There is a lot of sheet in the world and it likes to stay in your mind") is the  same we could see in "L´Aventure des Stein": in a world where we stay apart one another, Art is one of the few things that keeps us in touch. Be believe to be alone, but being alone in Art is being nothing.

Gertude Stein

Galas goes a step beyond and mixes up the past and the present, for the work of Johanson is for him "the tip of the iceberg" whose origin would be those who worked centuries ago. We are what other made: We are the past, too.

So it is not just been part of those who would listen and understand your work, as Gertrude Stein would listen and understand Matisse. It is to be living all past lives, for you are nothing without the ones that were here before.

Daniel Galas

It is not possible to create -or live- in an island. We think we can do so because the public space has disappeared a long time ago. We manage it with Twitter, but the story we are showing in tweets is just a tale. And there is a problem with it: if you make up what you are, you can´t live what you are, you can´t learn what you are. The first job of an artist is to go up and look at the whole, and to watch oneself in the middle of it. Traveling from the deeper guts to the whole is a very long way to go.  

This could be extended to life, and life would be much easier to be lived. We are the tip of the iceberg; we live what other lived before. The artist cannot create without knowing what the other made, but in life it is just the same. Look at the eldest, at the dead, and they will show you some of the way. They survived it, so will you.

Chris Johanson

"We need to be a part of each other. If we separate we are alone. That is a world of walking dead people" Chris Johanson