Josef Mikl

2007

We have been together for 25 years (silver) - with our painting on different paths - but with two good directions.

Not via the art market, where so many cardboard-covered globals, crap pieces, shiny objects, professors' faces with total works of art, electric entertainers as cult figures, role models, whiz kids and other falsifications are on offer.
You poor heirs, don't you curse the junk you get, not your ancestors,
who bought it?
Vienna's Makartgasse no longer has a house, no janitor: this is the future of art market celebrities.
But Brigitte's crates, boxes and suitcases have their master painter.
In her well-managed painter's house - and that's how it will stay.

"Man not only has little time and space to act, but also to examine and think about certain objects. Art history, for example, is so spacious that it obstructs the space for any other collection of the mind. Science excludes science.
The scholar can come to himself least of all before things. The poet alone brings him a little back home to himself."

From Jean Paul: Selina or on immortality (Selina oder über die Unsterblichkeit)

J.G.Cotta'sche Buchhandlung 1827 (first edition)

Josef Mikl und Brigitte Mikl Bruckner, Foto: Klinger