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DON'T FEED THE ARTIST (an exhibition/performance by mazen kerbaj)

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dear friends,

if you happen to be around brussels between the 4th and the 12th of december, please drop by the Halles de Schaerbeek
for my new exhibition/performance: DON’T FEED THE ARTIST
info: http://www.halles.be/event.php?id=649

for those who cannot afford the travel to brussels, you can check my blog
(www.mazenkerblog.blogspot.com) or my flickr page
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/kerbaj/) for daily pictures of the exhibit,
starting the 5th of december.

for those who cann afford the travel, please note that besides the exhibit,
i will also play a trumpet solo in the same venue, on the 6th of december,
at 5.30PM

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DON’T FEED THE ARTIST (for a bad english version scroll down please)

“Le regard des autres sur ma peinture ce n’est pas mon problème, c’est leur
problème. Je ne peins pas pour les autres, je fais de la peinture pour
moi-même.”
Francis Bacon – Entretiens avec Michel Archimbaud

Quel est le statut de l’artiste dans la société? Est-il un demi-dieu, un
parasite, un exhibitionniste, ou une bête de foire? Quelle est la nature de
sa relation avec les spectateurs et non spectateurs?

L’œuvre a-t-elle besoin du spectateur pour exister?
Créer une œuvre d’art est-il un combat?

Qui en sort vainqueur? Où est l’arbitre? Et quel est le ring?
Quelle relation l’artiste entretient-il avec son œuvre?

Peut-il réellement disparaître derrière cette dernière?
D’où viennent les idées? L’inspiration existe-t-elle?

Peut-on jamais créer quelque chose de nouveau?

Le processus n’est-il pas plus important que le résultat?

Peut-on considérer la création d’une œuvre d’art comme une œuvre d’art?

Dans une exposition, qui de l’artiste ou de l’œuvre s’expose le plus? A quoi
s’exposent-ils d’ailleurs? Quand et où commence une exposition? Et quand se
termine-t-elle? […]

A défaut de répondre à ces questions, Mazen Kerbaj tente de les poser.
Pendant 9 jours, il s’enferme (et s’expose) dans une cage en verre dans
laquelle il travaille. Les œuvres terminées prennent place au fur et à
mesure sur les parois de la cage, permettant aux visiteurs-spectateurs de
suivre l’avancée des travaux. Au dernier soir, (pendant le
vernissage-décrochage) l’expo peut enfin commencer, et s’achever.

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DON’T FEED THE ARTIST

What is an artist’s status in society? Is he a half-god, a parasite, an
exhibitionist or a circus freak?

What kind of relation does he have to his viewers and non-viewers?
Do his pictures need to be seen for them to exist?

Is creating a work of art like a boxing fight? Who emerges the winner? Who
is the judge? What is the ring?

At an exhibition, is it the artist or the work of art exhibiting
himself/herself/itself the most? To whom are they exhibiting themselves?
When and where does an exhibition begin? And when does it end?

Far from answering such questions, Mazen Kerbaj tries at least to ask them.
For ten days he will shut himself inside a glass cage (exhibiting himself)
to work. As soon as any picture is finished, it will be hung on the walls of
the cage, allowing the viewers to follow step-by-step the evolution of the
exhibit.
On the final evening (during the preview/taking down) the exhibition can
finally begin, and finish.

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