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Felix Gmelin Colour Test, The Red Flag No.2 2002

Be Here Now
Adam E Mendelsohn on the ultimate high – the retrieval of history through re-enactment

IT’S DIFFICULT TO TELL WHETHER MARK E SMITH IS CELEBRATING OR BERATING THE INEVITABLE WHEN HE BLARED: ‘There’s repetition in the music and we’re never gonna lose it.’ An averse reaction to being held hostage by the almighty laws of repetition might explain why most people who are really into art, are also addicted to rarefied experience.
Art devotees are junkies that forever chase the new, the ancient, the authentic, the unique, the true, the weird, the exquisite, the beautiful, the priceless and the sublime. Perhaps the most ethereal, unobtainable ‘high’ is access to the past.

10.06 / ART MONTHLY / 300

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