Studio Visit (4): Sam Dillemans

 

 

So. This video. What is it? Is it some kind of Hollywood fiction? The thrilling life-story of a painter annex boxer who fights, not only in the ring, but also against himself (music swells…) and the geniuses of the past. Against the Van Gogh's, the Picassos,…

No. It isn’t.

It’s a documentary. About a Belgian painter. Annex boxer. Who fights against blahblahblah blah blah…

I hate this documentary. Well, no. I don’t. It’s a great documentary. It even won an award, the FIPA d’Or in 2008 at Biarritz, France. But I hate this guy, the painter Sam Dillemans who… Well, no. I don’t. I don’t hate him. He is a really great painter. But…

But I hate these art-myths. And the ridiculously pompous air of importance and self-sacrifice which…

Oh, you know what? You be the judge. Watch the video-fragment. Maybe you’ll wanna be a painter-boxer to after you’ve seen it. Good luck with it.

Let me know what you think.

 

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