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Painting is hard because before you have even applied brush to canvas you
have this immense history. A blank canvas is quite simply not blank. Areas such
as netart do not have a history as such. There isn't a collective memory.
This interweaving that Ken mentions is interesting. Balance, painting with
all its medium specificity is perhaps only escaped when another practice is
encorporated. One medium is offset with another. The notion that one must
escape!?
I like the idea of an 'old' website, as Mark comments. Is it old because it
hasn't been added to, it just sits encapsulated within the net, gradually
dating? Websites are new. We use them to provide the latest information. I had
not thought before it was possible to find a live relic, it is such a
contradiction.
I don't understand Marc's comment on ex-painters turned web artists. Surely
you can be an artist who paints and exhibits online? Your exhibition seems to
mimic 'Suprise Suprise', ICA, July/August, it would probably be more
interesting, the transitionary gap between painting and webart must be
greater than that of developing signature styles.
I do paint, but I realise I am very bad, every few months however I think
'damn', 'I need to do a painting'!
Henry
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