A novel of great complexity, Doctor Faustus is also a treatise on how art and, with it, the artist, has become autonomous. How it broke away from religious and collective bounds to become a domain accessible only to the isolated individual and how, in this state of permanent self-reflection, erodes the artist’s creative powers.
Various strands of my curatorship and artistic practice converge in this plan: the wish to paint W139 from head to toe at least once; the wish to be instrumental in a collaboration between different artists who transcend the obligatory reference to a shared theme and the endeavour to vanquish the wondrous fear of illustration that has held the visual arts captive for over a century.
No catalog was published. butDE GROENE AMSTERDAMMER published a special exhibition magazine for this exceptional project which is available at www.ftn-books.com
