Wednesday, January 27, 1999

Lucerne - Switzerland - Hotel-room 10pm

..I visited the mirror-palace, it reminds me of my childhood, of those mirror-palaces at the Brussels-fair, where we got through, bouncing our head against those mirror-walls, while the people outside were laughing. This one is much better. By the way, do you know that you can get through 75% of maze by always turning rights - or always left...
...I visited also the Picasso-museum and have been attracted by an oil-painting of a boy looking at a lady who’s doing her hair ‘La coiffure’, where you can see the principle of his ‘art’ – looking at a person or an object by all the sides at the same time. But the image that impressed me the most was a photograph of the master himself, putting his first stroke of paint on a ‘virgin’-white canvas. It makes me think of the text I’ve written a week ago for my first exhibition, where I talked about the moment of creation. Then, thanks to the beautiful weather, went to the Tribschen-peninsula, where Richard Wagner lived a couple of years. Even if the museum was closed (I knew it beforehand), walking through the neighborhood gave me some kind of satisfaction. Afterwards went to the museum of art (in their temporary rooms till 2000). It was the first time that they asked me to put a cow - really a little object that sounds like a cow if you turn it up-side down – by the object of art that I disliked the most. I’ve put it on a kind of sound-art-environment that irritated me from the moment I’ve entered the room till the moment I left. But my god … what is art expensive. Should I reconsider my prices for my first exhibition in March?...