A Painting a Day keeps the Doctor away
An everyday picture for the twittering world
The venerable institution of the art exhibition – with the help of the Internet Maf Räderscheidt turns it into an authentic art project about the position of the painting in the modern media. Since March this spring the artist creates every day a painting as a comment on the events under the motto “A Painting a Day keeps the doctor away”, posts it on the Internet and shares it via the Twitter micro blog service. The opening of the exhibition of these works will take place on the 12th of September, in the Junckerhaus in Simonskall near Hürtgenwald. However, no single curator or the artist will meet the choice, but the “Follower” from @mafraederscheid on Twitter. So this exhibition will be the first one which is curated worldwide via World Wide Web, explore new ways of global networking and worldwide art mediation and make Twitter itself the content of an art project.
While the world of the web designers still considers what could be meant with the term „web 2.0, under the title “Twitter” a phenomenon has established, that was recently thought to be impossible
The principle is easy. With 140 signs users answer the question: „What are you doing?“ And while some users are still defeated by the thought, the world would be interested in the fact that they use just the toilet, Twitter has become a political issue which is credited to be able to bring down a government.
The uniqueness of Twitter is that you’re not in an anonymous internet or operate in closed forums, but moves publicly in a well-defined user group of personally known individuals, which is actually just interested in the same themes than you. In this way worldwide interest guided networks develop that exchange information in their respective subject. This can be the fur care of thoroughbred rabbits, these can be radical political theses, in this case it is Visual Arts.
Because the followers of Maf Räderscheidt on Twitter are mainly professional artists, gallery owners or art enthusiasts on their own, it is an interesting experiment to watch the reaction of the global art scene from Alaska to Australia, from the Caucasus to China to the offer to curate an exhibition in a small, but historically significant museum in the Eifel.
In the Junckerhaus in Simonskall after the First World War the Cologne artists who were called later “the Progressives” met with the philosophers married couple Jatho to create in discussions out of the global disaster and their war experiences a new image of man that later found its artistic precipitation in the pictures of the painters gathered there: F.W.Seiwert, Heinrich Hoerle, the couple Räderscheidt-Hegemann. At this place the now developing fresh image of the society in the internet reality should also find its artistic translation – in the Daily Paintings of Maf Räderscheidt.
After the worldwide first television gallery on the Cologne local broadcast Center TV in 2007 this is already the second work of Maf Räderscheidt in which she analizes the position of painting in modern media like television or Internet.
