attitude

Guy Bleus - 42.292, fragment uit de bijdrage van Bleus aan de En Passant catalogus / fragment from a text by Guy Bleus, published in the En Passant catalogue (crox 18, 1991) : "/4/ Art is an attitude/ /what does the critic expect from the artist?/ /what does (s)he expect from the gallery?/ /what does the artist expect from the public?/ /what does the gallery expect from the artist?/ /what does the public expect from the works of art?/ /what does the sponsor expect from the artist?//in other words: a labyrinth of great expectations (with the artist in the centre of it)/ /the artist is always frustrated and the frustrator/ /(s)he can never come up to all the anticipations/ /one expects the unexpected from the artist: novelty, surprise, originality, unequalled, etc./ /so the unexpected becomes expected/"/
>Fragment uit het brainbox dossier (2004): "Dat kunstenaars producten voortbrengen is bekend. Of ze een attitude hebben die daarmee in overeenstemming is, al was het maar heel klein beetje, is al te weinig onderwerp van discussie." Beuys