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Nicolas Clauss' Art if I want Aims, ingredients and history of an artistic-cultural project
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Nicolas
Clauss' Art if I
want
Aims, ingredients
and history of an artistic-cultural project
De
l’art si je
veux
(Art if I want), on line since December 2004, is
led by the charismatic French artist 
Nicolas
Clauss. The
result is the response to a certain challenge and
it shows an admirably balanced blend of freshness
and profundity. The more one delves into the
subtext of the work, the more convinced one becomes
that Art if I want is a very special gem of
digital creation and at the same time much more
than one work of art. The challenge of this work
consisted in creating a work of art out of an
experience that is aesthetic and at the same time
alive. The origin of the work is to be found in an
experiment that the artist carried out accompanied
by 8 teenagers (5 girls and 3 boys between 11 and
16 years old) from the des Sablons, district of Le
Mans, a town that is famous for its 24-hour Grand
Prix motor race. With this group of teenagers
Clauss discussed the work of several modern artist
such as Arman, Spoerri, Basquiat, Cattelan and
Chapman, the Dinos brothers, Munch, Duchamp and
Bacon. The paper describes this discussion about
art and analyses its result as an own work of art.
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