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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.

The project strictly ignores the rules of the established art markets. It´s all about “the joy of insight” as OUBEY once said: sharing, exploring and discovering the secrets of his paintings through immediate personal encounters.

Every piece and product is a masterpiece and as such it makes the project´s public appearance to be a unique masterpiece, too.

According to our this year`s 5thAnniversary we are proud and happy to answer this question in a compact series of five crucial sessions, starting with the map of the exorbitantly expanding universe of OUBEY MINDKISS.

Lawrence Krauss, worldwide renowned cosmologist, hits the point: From a cosmic perspective humans are insignificant.

Up to about fifteen thousand years ago, our ancestors were nomads living in a simple world of the transitory present. Feeding themselves by hunting and gathering, they could see no further than the immediate satisfaction of their daily needs.

On the evening of 11 August 2004 I had a phone call. It was from someone who had heard of OUBEYs death in a car crash the week before and who was ringing me to express his sorrow.