Institute for True Art | What is the use of working in thought?
Works of art become immortal when they create myths, when they become anchored in our thoughts. But the same place, namely in thinking about the world, in designing a concept, in setting a narrative thread, is also where the potential lies that gives rise to works of art in the first place.
"But perhaps experience is the element in which art dies." (Heidegger, 1936)
Do we need the work of art as such? Or is the image only there to make art materially tangible and utilisable? To put it in more extreme terms: does the work function primarily as an idol, as a place of pilgrimage for believers?
