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“The constant of the speed of light separates us humans from a physical experience of the universe. This constant puts us in a kind of quarantine whose frontiers we can only overcome with the help of imagination.” – OUBEY (1992)

Humankind is intoxicated with speed. Over the last three hundred years, as development cycles have become ever shorter, the development pace of our scientific discoveries and technical achievements has increased exponentially.

Despite the differences in our personal make-up, OUBEY and I were in perfect agreement when it came to what I’d call the main things in life.

One of these points of common understanding was our love of poetry and especially the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke which had reached and moved both of us very early on in our lives before we met.

We cannot stop time. But we can forget it.

On the deepest level time always means life-time and as such it is the most valuable property that any living creature in this world can have. Only the spirit (said Erwin Schrödinger) and unconditional free love (say I) stand above time.

At every stopover of the OUBEY Global Encounter Tour visitors have the opportunity to do an "Open Encounter" with an unknown painting by OUBEY on their own. This ten year old boy took the chance to do so in December 2015 at our stopover at NIAAD in Uganda.

Liz Howard goes through a journey of emotions driven by the secret language of OUBEY's painting. She even starts to sing inspired by elements and lines within the painting and transforms them to sound/music. The power of her voice and her physical presence is tremendous. Liz Howard is a mezzo- soprano with a deep love of gospel and soul.

Welcome tot he complex university of the art of OUBEY (3 min video)

The MINDKISS Project has now been running non-stop for over ten years.

Is mathematics an invention of the human brain or does it exist independently of us? Do we just discover and explore its mysteries?

Art is free of any obligation, said OUBEY. Art is a daughter of freedom, said Friedrich Schiller.

With its Global Encounter Tour OUBEY MINDKISS is breaking rules by turning things upside down. The Tour brings OUBEYs art to places where people meet anyway and for any reason – except the reason to encounter art. That´s an experimental enterprise of a kind. Let´s see what comes next.

When paintings by OUBEY start travelling the world in their unique yellow flightcase, we don´t know whom they will we meet and what will happen when they arrive for an Encounter in New Zealand, North America or Africa. And their hosts don´t know either. They don´t even know which of OUBEYs paintings will be the one to encounter them. That´s special and quite unusual.

OUBEY was ahead of his time, a visionary futurist with a strong power of imagination, addicted to science, science fiction and technology. His use of the Amiga 500 computer to create a new kind of art – the amazing PhotonPaintings – was pioneer state of the art at his time. So it´s clear that the MINDKISS Project loves to use innovative high-tech concepts for their exceptional
presentation of OUBEYs work. It´s medium and message as well.