{"id":882,"date":"2013-11-25T00:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T23:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rene-schmitt.com\/artists\/peter-saul\/"},"modified":"2022-02-19T17:17:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T16:17:52","slug":"peter-saul","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rene-schmitt.com\/en\/artists\/peter-saul\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Saul"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

Peter Saul<\/h2>\n

Holy Moley (2013)<\/a>
\nQuack (2013)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\nDear Peter,<\/span><\/p>\n

you invited me to your home, and there it was: your black book.<\/span>
\n A diary, perhaps, rather a keeper or even an anchor of yours.<\/span>
\n Of your life as an artist. Of what you see and what you think,<\/span>
\n what surrounds you, what dazzles you, what inquiets you.<\/span><\/p>\n

When my wife asked me: why Peter Saul? I said it’s about conti-<\/span>
\n nuity and consistency. What a crap she said. That’s what every<\/span>
\n critic says about every artist, that it must be about continuity<\/span>
\n and consistency. What was the momentum? she asked me. What was<\/span>
\n your momentum?<\/span><\/p>\n

Then I told her about your book. And that, later at your studio,<\/span>
\n you had showed me around your paintings and your works on paper.<\/span>
\n paper. Finally you had opened up your drawn archive to me,<\/span>
\n rather studies, perhaps, or sketches, fragments maybe.<\/span><\/p>\n

And I was struck. I fell for this.<\/span>
\n It is your thoughts, drawn but unrefined, your comments, caught<\/span>
\n but not filtered, it is an archive of you, but also an archive<\/span>
\n of me, of us, of our coummunities, our societies, our lives as<\/span>
\n mankind in a big bowl of boiling mishmash.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is not processed by our languages, it is from your mind for<\/span>
\n your mind to keep in mind.<\/span>
\n It is 60 years or even more, I don’t know.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is imagery, powerful, mostly enormous, it is forcing. It is<\/span>
\n not so much American, there is no warning or insurance against<\/span>
\n this.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe I was not prepared, surely I wasn’t insured against your<\/span>
\n imagery, and no one is, no one could ever be, could we?<\/span><\/p>\n

This imagery, your imagery is mankind. Is us. Has been for a<\/span>
\n long time, and will never stop being. Brutal and at the same<\/span>
\n time loving. And it is everywhere, in Paris, or in New York,<\/span>
\n or at the end of the rainbow. Everywhere and forever.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, I told my wife, isn’t this continous and consistent, or<\/span>
\n what?<\/span><\/p>\n

Truly, absolutely respectfully yours:<\/span><\/p>\n

Ren\u00e9<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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