OUBEY Complexity (Trailer)

If I’ve chosen to write about OUBEY and the Fosbury Flop today, it’s because I was inspired by the brilliant introductory talk Professor Peter Kruse gave at the opening night of the OUBEY Global Encounters Tour in Berlin two weeks ago.

OUBEY called his computer-based “painting with light”, created between 1988 and 1993, “PhotonPainting”. For him it was less a technique than an idea, a philosophy: the idea of painting with light.

“The aim of my art is definitely not to prune the high complexity of reality down to some underlying elementary order but to preserve the bloom of magic cast by the world in all its complexity and uncontrollability. And to try to encounter this with something that matches this bloom of magic. Because nature itself is an art work.”

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