Revelation
90 x 90 cm
1994
Property of Mr. and Mrs. Ter Hennepe
“Meta-art transcends the known arts – that’s why it is called Meta-art – entirely, despite the fact that it uses the same humble means.
In essence there is only one pendant for this phenomenon: baron Munchausen, dragging himself from the swamp by his own hair.
But this baron is a reassuring fantasy figure, while Meta-art represents a disturbing reality.
Disturbing, because there is no other artistic expression that distracts itself in such a way from our grip like Meta-art.
But the most disturbing: that Meta-art only because of this (indeed) expresses more about our essence than in any other creative expression can be expressed about this essence.
With which Meta-art at last represents something that still really gnaws at the basic certainties of our art experiences.
A hungry wolf dressed in a woolly sheep’s skin.
Damn, modernism was still to be finished.
And modernism is finished. In a grand style.”
From the chapter Meta-art,
from the book Meta-art
by Mick van Schooneveld
