PAINTINGS OF PAINTINGS
2012 – the future | Series of paintings
The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (published 1942)
With his works, Jari Genser puts his finger into a metaphysical wound. Talking about the „copy of the copy of the copy“ usually implies a lack of quality, which possibly manifests itself in a lower intensity of experience. One thinks of forgeries, replicas, plagiarisms, fakes, knock-offs, or the poor images of the digital era. Plato‘s criticism of artists comes to mind, because, as is well known, he wanted to ban them from his ideal republic because they produce imitations of imitations. According to this, every material object, for example a table, is the imitation of a pre-image in the realm of ideas, of which craftsmen then make copies.
