During my time at the Museum of Contemporary Art, the question I was asked the most by visitors coming to experience the exhibitions was: “what does this artwork mean?”. I guess for some the answer was easy, for other it was necessary a bit of study on my behalf, and for the rest of them… well, let’s say that some artwork was incredibly difficult to understand.

Something I always said to everyone though is that the most powerful thing about Contemporary Art, is that it speaks differently to each and everyone of us. No matter what your background is, your education, your sensibility to beauty or ugly, art will set off a reaction, whatever that might be, wherever you want it or not. So if you are angry because you “don’t get it”, that’s fine too… I believe there is no need to explain in details what an artwork means. There are millions things don’t making any rational sense every single day, but we don’t get upset all the time, right? We simply experience them on a different level, subliminal, emotional, perceptional.

What am I trying to say? I discover this artist through Siba Sahabi website and I love his work. I can’t really say why, and I don’t want to start an analysis on the different reasons… I just wanted to share it with you.

His name is Andreas Kocks, and the creations you see here are part of his Paperwork Collection. Why do I love them? Not sure… maybe because lately I feel the same way, like I don’t know where I came from and I definitely don’t know where I am going, but here I am… splashed throughout the surface!

And you, do you have a favourite artist or artwork, favourite museum? Tell me more about it, I would love to know!

Photo courtesy of Andreas Kocks

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