...a deathly serenade...

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created to speak to an important part of us…
perhaps the wild part or the difficult part, but
definitely a part people shouldn't disregard and
is the reason I make these little ditty's. For the
love of the NAKED TRUTH. My work is all
about stripping God, or us, totally naked! If you
think there is one, in a sense… A full eclipse of
nakedness…
Interviewer
Do you think you have a God complex?
Franz Bema
No. Who is God, we? I? Or You? You tell me?
Interviewer
Well, along the same lines: you once said you
don't believe in Art, but that you believe in the
Artist. What did you mean by this? Who creates
the Art? What is the difference?
Franz Bema
The difference is fine, but if you look back in
history - this concept has always been
challenging from Doestoevsky to Knut Hamsun
to Duchamp and Dali… If you take Knut
Hamsun for example, who wrote Hunger, which
is one of my favourite books, he famously made
this defection with those strange political
leanings. A firm dislike of politics, I don't for
one minute agree with his decision … ha…. no
way jose will I defend that. But do I love his
books, certainly. Because he is authentic, it's not
about good or bad, it's about the beauty of life's
poetry as we're all merely instruments. Can an
Artist disappoint me, sure…I think some writers
are just scribbling, total scribbles…This thing I
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