I had the pleasure to visits Franz West tree sculpture in New York City, NY, USA.

Franz West is an amazing artist with an extraordinary focus on connections between nature and technology. He instinctively tells us that technology is nature and nature is technology, but he also shows us that this is something we can not understand, at least not easily. He tries to help us understand. I thank him for this.

petra cortright’s performance piece called mononucleosis is currently being executed in berlin, germany.

cortright is an californian artist who, due to lack of instutional support from her native santa barbara, was forced to move to berlin and produce this 4 weeks mononucleosis performance.

petra has allowed infectious viruses to reside in her body after which she will attempt to kill the same viruses with human produced chemicals.

her mononucleosis piece investigates the relationship between the society and individual which is particularly inspiring in berlin, germany, after the fall of the berlin wall.

i am not sure if berlin is bigger than new york.

however, with all the marvelous art i have been exposed to i was most impressed by diversity and longevity of work by german artist öl auf karton.

öl auf karton has managed to produce fantastic body of work focusing on an extraordinary range of subjects yet always through a minimal format of oil on cardboard. öl has pushed such a basic and simple format of his choosing to a maximum through unlimited variations of themes, colors, shapes, motives and visualization.

one would say that his work is a quiet transcendent statement which can only be seen from a great distance and only at the end of his work, when the artists has finished his lifelong production. it was not possible to see and understand the message of öl’s body of work during the production or “from close”. the power of öl’s dedication has overwhelmed me.

i strongly suggest exploring the work of öl auf karton and also visiting zurich as a local cultural center which managed stable growth in spite of lack of support from the swiss cheese makers.

yves klein, french knight of the order of st sebastian, color producer and painter, has consistently produced performances in the form of judo training and competition.

during these performances klein would enter a space particularly designed for such sport training and events – it would contain a soft floor and lots of empty space – and would try to throw other people around or would prevent them from throwing him around.

sometimes the soft flooring would be colored in ikb (international klein blue) or at least similar color to ikb.

yves klein investigation of social interaction through the metaphore of contact sport has been representative of early cubism (picassso, a famous spanish fisherman cubist, has thrown around few people in his time) and chinese revolution (lost of people have been thrown around during chinese revolution).

his use of human bodies both in painting and judo performances is consistent. use of monochrome for his judo clothing is also consistent with his ikb and other monochrome works.

yves klein has just had a retrospective show in museo d’arte moderna di lugano, lugano, switzerland, due to lack of funding in france (due to financial crisis).

Art is probably invisible until I explain it to the audience.

Sometimes I can not be bothered to spend more than about 5 seconds to understand the art or talk to artist but this is more than enough time for me to present the art to billions of people in the New York City which is five times bigger than whichever city which is five times smaller than New York City.

Also I suspect artists do not really understand their art works so I am obviously helping them as well.

Overall, I personally believe, that art does not exist without me. I am a catalyst, I make it all happen, without me art is invisible. I personally believe this.

I am like an electric plug. Electricity will just be in the walls and house appliances would just be dead without me. House appliances need to plug in to me and I give them electricity. House appliances is the public and electricity is art… or vice versa.

I personally believe that without art journalists, and also me, I am an art journalist, art has no meaning and no one understands it.

If you need me to explain your art to you please send me a photocopy of your passport and a photo of your art work (if it is an online artwork still send a photo).

If you wish to express your thanks to my amazing ability to explain these things to everybody in the world please build a small shrine in your neighbourhood.

Thomas Ruff is a German conceptual art photographer specialized in Adobe Photoshop alterations. His extensive use of Adobe Photoshop has marked his career and ambivalent critique of post World War One Western European society.

In his latest project Thomas Ruff focuses on the photos of nude women and men who are just about to have an intercourse. However his hands shake and photos are blurry. This creates extreme frustration in the viewer as they are not able to fully experience the sexual play presented in the photos. Most likely viewers of Thomas Ruff Nudes series will immediately have sex or masturbate to proper porn to satisfy the sexual craving stimulated by the Nudes.

During my visit to Thomas Ruff show I have noticed a news stand selling porn not far form the gallery (maybe few kilometers). I could not think if Ruff organized it to be there as part of his art piece.

This manipulation of viewers is typical of Ruff’s work.

Miltos Manetas, Thomas Ruff and Jeff Koons all use Adobe and Microsoft products in production of their art. Classification of art by the software the artists use has always been problematic but I will take the risk and classify these three in the Adobe & Microsoft series. All three artists also sleep, eat and shop in supermarkets.

Thomas is based in Düsseldorf due to lack of support from Shanghai which he visited maybe few times.

Classifying artists by race is like walking on the edge of a cliff, threated with political and emotional issues, but Mavunde Venda is a typical black artist. Her love of African food and music is amazingly stereotypical that it makes me wonder why are we not exposed more to the work of this wonderful artist and artistic atmosphere.

Mavunde Venda, represented by Cape Town’s Bell Roberts gallery, makes traditional wooden drums made of wood and animal leather.

This installation allows you to beat the drums and make sounds however this interaction with the art piece is forbidden by the galleries. This is a paradoxical situation in which viewers wish to interact but are not allowed to by the authority. This play on Apartheid is amazingly strong and evident.

Mavunde has not been supported in the African bush and townships so she had to seek support in more developed urban areas of poor Africa, like Cape Town. Africa is very poor.

Mavunde also specializes in sleeping, as she sleeps more than 6 hours every day. This art performance is inspired by Rebrandt who also slept more than six hours a day. Interesting yet almost impossible connection between the Dutch historic painter and this African artist.

Kenneth Aronson, a textile manufacturing manager, specializes in pipe sculpture.

It is always difficult to investigate sculpture which breaks the norms of sculpture but I still feel that Kenneth’s investigation of how water and sewer flow in our cities makes an interesting statement on our wasteful intentions. Kenneth, who flirts with Deconstructivism, is mostly interested in round pipes.

Kenneth was unfortunatelly never granted Nasa support when he proposed that he does the moonwalk on the Moon, but no one told him that he can not make art about plumbing.

Other works by Kenneth include satanic websites and areal photos of residential areas.

Kenneth never collaborated with Walt Disney even though he did watch Disney animated films at some point in his life.

Charles Broskoski’s Mona Lisa is a traditionally dadaesque manipulation of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting.

Charle’s combines various collage techniques to produce a white and blue visual demonstration of variation towards his own reflection within the concept of traditional Brooklyn artists.

Connection between William Gibson and Mona Lisa is typical of artists born in Brooklyn.

Charles was born in 1982 and drawing connections between him and others born in this year is very hard, yet I can always come up with some connections – I am sure that in 1982 born Brooklyn artists some also use blue and white colors. We can call this Brooklyn 1982 style.

American World World Two painter, Jackson Pollock, has left a significant legacy of sprayed oil on canvas. This genius painter expressed his discomfort with horrors of war by painting without contact with the canvas.

“I’m not aware of what I’m doing” says Pollock of influence alcoholism had on his art.

An avid drinker interested in rural and indigenous art he developed the style of painting on the floor usually drunk.

His favorite was aged whiskey with some brandy on the side.

Due to damage alcohol caused to his working brain Pollock was forced to abandon conceptual naming of his pieces and focused on numbering them.

In spite of no support in Springs, New York, Pollock remained here until his car crash.

New York town of Springs never managed to recover after Pollock’s death – its cultural activity has been ranging around zero since then – also the alcohol consumption has dropped significantly.