Francois Bourgeon .

Gerhard Richter

…”For a painter who has so successfully neutralized the declarative potential of his medium, Gerhard Richter has committed to print a surprisingly large amount of discussion on his work. Perhaps it is only natural that an artist whose painting incarnates the Cagean premise that there is nothing to communicate should be moved to address that fact over and over. For this reason, the first edition of Richter’s writings, The Daily Practice of Painting (published in 1993 by MIT Press) was an especially compelling collection, gathering the speculations of an artist profoundly involved in states of doubt, uncertainty and negation.”….

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Lebbeus Woods.Architecture.Drawings.Fantasy.Science Fiction.

„,”SEDUCTION LULLABY is a feel-bad film in Michael Haneke’s style. It presents the bad side of human beings, and the hero of this film reminds me a little of the hero in BENNY’S VIDEO. THE WITCH is an extreme horror film.”…see here,

Solaris

Andrei Tarkovsky

Statislav Lem

“If [Stanislaw Lem] isn’t considered for a Nobel Prize by the end of the century, it will be because someone told the judges that he writes science fiction,” predicted a Philadelphia Inquirer critic in 1983. Lem is arguably the greatest living science fiction writer, and even one of the most important European authors of his generation; yet he commands little critical attention, and has failed to reach discerning American science fiction readers who ought, one would think, to be most interested in him. The reasons for this may be sought, paradoxically, in the high demands he makes of his own work: Lem is a true original, but at the price of being marginal.

Ad Infinitum Lebbeus Woods

Picture from ArchiCentral.