une sublimation d'humanisme

today a poignant comment was made by a collector who returned to see the marcos carrasquer exhibition "nobody's dead"  for the second day in a row. she said that she could sense in his work "une sublimation d'humanisme" despite the presence of sadistic scenes or horrific subject matter. she said without knowing marcos that he must deep down be a humanist at heart because she felt an ultimate hopefulness coming from his work. 

her capacity to express this type of truth is an example of what i call seeing with the heart's eye; she was clearly receiving from his paintings and drawings well beyond the visible. but it is only through the visible of course that the invisible level can be accessed which is why paintings are doorways into the unknown. it isn't a matter of understanding intellectually with the frontal brain, it is an intuitive comprehension that the heart's antennae pick up.

if only i could figure out a way to show people how to open their heart's eye....wide open so that they can absorb in through their pores all this lovely life force.

de vita et moribus epicuri

last valentine's day, the gallery invited the jocelyne danchick dance company to perform "le monde entre parentheses" surrounded by the remarkable paintings of marcos carrasquer. everyone assumed that the choreographer and the painter had collaborated; it seemed the dancers had stepped out of the paintings.

given that neither marcos nor jocelyne knew of eachother's work prior to the performance, i would say it was a  'cosmic collaboration'  in an alternative space-time.  i simply want to share with you some of the photos that danielle voirin took of the performance.