A HIDDEN TREASURE
If Art is about inner truth, then nothing could be more actual in this world (of global warming, fratricide wars), than the treasures Myriam discovers or creates in the silence of her kind soul.
If I would have the choice I would not doubt. Rather than futuristic nightmares, I rather live in the magical gardens she architects for the future: The green, pure, innocent, violence-free worlds she paints and photographs.
As the great classical music, Myriam's art and being, can be seen today as of another time; and forgotten.
How much per cent of the population listens to the treasure of classical music in Radio stations as Klara? Alarming statistics in the past, if I remember well, said it is around one per cent of the population in the area. I do not know if it has evolved.
The explanation for this phenomena is in the spiritual level of the masses.
As the stronger wavelengths of popular radio stations (like radio Donna) have dulled away the cultural radios, as Klara, in Belgium, pop culture gurus would dull her work off the scene.
For most of the people, the real treasure of classic music or of Myriam's art is still buried.
Has the time come for it to be discovered ? I can only present this mysterious person to you, personally, or through my own work, and hope you will see them as the treasures they are.
The answer depends on you.
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A brief exchange with a guru of Modern Art
MYRIAM'S WORK versus CONTEMPORARY ART.
Once on a brief exchange, Jan Hoet, without even knowing me, said to me he that 'he could never be my friend'.
I disagree with him.
Not to have the same view on Art is not a reason not be friends.
We can understand each other if we want to, if we are not too proud to be questioned, and to be willing to want to understand each other.
He prejudiced me because of some post cards of Myriam Vandenberghe's nature paintings he saw in my hand.
To project our prejudices on another, on what is, and want no discussion, is the main cause of disruption in any relationship.
On another occasion, I came with one of his friends to a dinner he gave in honour of the Broodthaers' Mossel-pot.
At a certain moment I stood before all his guests and asked him: -"What is more important to you: Love or Art?
He answered that Art could not compete with neither Nature nor Love.
After the dinner, according to the person who took me, Jan Hoet said in Flemish to him:
-"Godverdomme"! Who did you bring with you!?...
Before I left, I told Jan Hoet that one day I would make his portrait.
Here at least, is a philosophical portrait of our brief exchanges:
Jan Hoet is in contradiction when in one hand he affirms the superiority of love and Nature over Art,
and on the other, snobs an extraordinary expression of love for nature and all living beings as mere 'decoration'.
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OUR STANDPOINTS:
If Art would be about form or fashion, and not spirit, then even if created pollution and insensibility, it may be considered as art,
while even those promote life and peace, if not according to form, would be disconsidered.
To say a work is a work of Art because it is 'IN' (fashion) is the greatest fault contemporary art exponents can make, then, an urgent change of heart is needed for contemporary art ..
Here the issue is not only a question of taste, it is a matter of consciousness.
The only thing which can stop human bloodshed history and save the Earth, is to be humble enough to see what is and not prejudge anyone.
There is nothing substantially new in a work of art, in a revolution, when you substitute one vanity of power for another, substitute one prejudice for another.
van Chapman
Philosophic Community Projects
www.naturestudio.net.