Hymn to Insanity with Marcus van Soest
I have been working on an interview with Marcus van Soest who has created an Online Video of one of his paintings - Hymn to Insanity. I can’t embed the video here, but I will put it on WebMetricsguru.com.Â
powerpainter: Hi Marshall, are you there? I uploaded the first videoclip, the one i shot today. This afternoon we filmed, my friend HZLZ did the camera, i did the editing. It starts with the powerpainter videoblog scenes then you see me in my studio explaining about the statement, ten comes the journey over the painting 1 minute then the 4 minutes explanation by moi…
me: great. You have a lot of current events going on – are they still being worked out? – What resolution does the painting have about these events?
powerpainter: I don’t understand your question, I am a bloody Dutchman…
me: This is a story happening right now – how do you see it ending?
powerpainter: Yeah that’s a good solution… Well, hopefully the problems will be solved, I am more worried about global change of climates, we should direct our energy to that issue instead of all this money devouring warmongers..
Painting is like dreaming without sleeping, the painting enfolds before the inner eye. As a painter i am also an activist, trying to show my bizarre vision to the world, in search for universal language…
me: Yours is a different case- knowing what and why your painting can help the viewer get more out of looking at it – though your paintings stand on their own and actually don’t need an explanation. Still, an explanation is helpful.
powerpainter: Normally you hang a painting and you’re not there to explain about it, the painting has to tell the story by itself and it does… that’s what I call a good piece of communication.
me: OK, that’s cool. I might try posting the movie tonight with a couple of notes from our chat and then we;ll do a fuller interview next week…how does that sound?
powerpainter: It’s an old hermetic view, about up and down, inside and outside, solve the inner conflict so the World conflict ceases to exist..
me: Have you studied any philosophies?
powerpainter: Well I used to read a lot of books about the esoteric, the Occult, Jungian Psychology, Man and his Symbols, I studied Hieronymus Bosch, the old master, an alchemist and savant. Leadbeater, Ouspensky, Gurdjieff, Blavatsky, Rudolf Steiner and more… now I quit reading heavy stuff, try to keep life simple, I study my demons…
me: right – we have enough to deal with.
powerpainter: okee I go now, I am quite tired, need to relaxxxxx… bye
That was my interview with Marcus van Soest today.
I posted the video of Hymn to Insanity at Webmetricsguru, btw, called the post ‘Hymn to Insanity’ and my remote communication with the Dutch Painter Marcus van Soest and there’s also a short post about our communication at SmartMobs.
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Delighted I was to find the articles on ArtNewYorkCity.com, webmetricsguru.com and smartmobs,com I decided to leave you a thankyou-note under this article, Well I am happy that thanx to my expo at Monkdogz Urban Art (http://monkdogz.com) I met you so we can have this interesting project together bridging the ocean . Forming overseas bonds is also a gift of the World Wide Web and the digital communication revolution we’re in since a few years now… As an Artist I welcome these creative opportunities with all my heart, acting as a social satelite: Communication is my middlename, being born under the sign of Mercurius (Gemini)..
About POWERPAINTER.ORG: I redirected the site because the database became corrupted, possibly by the act of hacking, I went there a few days ago to find out that the navigation had changed, the only way to change that is to login and have admin access, well, how thet did it , they did it… Anyway we are working on a solution and are on the look-out to a new Host or we might host it ourselves, we will rebuilt the database (happily we just recently backed it up) after the 20th November because then my main man the programmer Rein Velt will have time to assist me getting it up again, it’s gonna be a lot of work to configure it’s modules. Message to these hackers: Go hack a site of somebody who makes big money with it, I pay all out of my pocket, it’s pure idealism driving me.. In the next generation POWERPAINTER.ORG we have to find a way to make money to keep it running stable. But as we are an idealogical organisation we don’t want to place adds and want to be a free service to artists. If anybody has suggestions on this point please let me know..
Marshall I am looking forward to the indept interview coming soon… I’ll be prepared!
Can you put a stringlink under the article “Marcus van Soest” like you did at the first article so they connect?
Keep up the good works , Marshall!
Marcus van Soest
By Marcus van Soest on November 13th, 2006 at 12:03 pm
Sorry didn’t notice it , but the stringlink is visible, think I had morning dust in my eyes…
Marcus
By Marcus van Soest on November 13th, 2006 at 1:01 pm
[...] I did an earlier interview with Marcus van Soest last month Hymn to Insanity with Marcus van Soest and we’ve chatted several times since – found out a lot about life in the Hague and European art as it’s happening now. Here’s part of the conversations I’ve had with Marcus. Also, Marcus van Soest has placed a YouTube Video on his site that focuses on the topic of this interview – located here. [...]
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