BAFFLED AND BEWILDERED
I felt like something light but there didn't seem to be much around. Keith Haring maybe "giggly stuff" for children but since seeing it, I was in living in a world of memory. Sad ones at that. You know how much I dislike these kind of reflections. When reading Beax Arts magazine on my balcony the other night (the first evening this year when it was warm enough to sit outside ,)there was an article on an artist I knew nothing about. Mike Kelley. Apparently an important American artist of the 20th coming after Andy Warhol and pursuing other directions rather than just pop art. He took his life in December 2012, missing out on one of the biggest retrospective exhibition openings of his work, which of course he must of known about. Only 57 and I am sure there is more to it than I have read. What I found drôle and touching at the same time was his recuperation of rag toys found disgarded in garbish dumps and un-loved, turning them into half man-half beast. (A picture in Be