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All life forms now alive on this planet undergo genetic evolution in the course of millions of years. And no matter how disparate these life forms may be, the pace of change on this development track is excruciatingly slow. Yet when the development of any species is so slow that it fails to keep pace with radically changing environmental conditions, the species is doomed to extinction.

Ancient Greek soothsayers believed they could read signs of forthcoming events from the flight of birds.

OUBEYs Paintings Enthusiastically Received by the Maori in Aotearoa New Zealand

I am continually amazed to find how in OUBEYs paintings even the most disparate and seemingly irreconcilable elements are balanced in a relationship of equality and merge into one organic unity

“These pictures start speaking to you once you start looking at them” is what one amazed member of the Te Kura Kaupapa Maori O Nga Mokopuna school’s Parents Association said shortly after seeing OUBEYS paintings for the first time.

If at some point in the future we discover signs of extraterrestrial intelligence or even actually meet with such beings, all our previous ideas about who and what we are would be rocked to their very foundations.

The third stopover of the Global Encounter Tour: OUBEY in Vienna

“What we need today are not tunnel vision thinkers but inquiring free-ranging minds because such minds are best fitted to cope with complexity”.

“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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Ever since OUBEYs painting Nullfeld was presented in the last newsletter and since its recent appearance in the gallery on OUBEYs website, I’ve received a lot of enquiries wondering just what this Zero Point Field actually refers to.

A look behind the scenes of a highly unusual project