Title: Mooi is nuttig
Description: In this book the artist Kristof Van Gestel focuses on the role of art in his life--not just any art, but the art he creates himself--and the experiences that result from his art practice. The artist describes how the quest for meaning when making art helps him to discover ways individual people create meaning in general and lend meaning to the world that surrounds them in particular. Thus for Van Gestel making art acquires a more profound meaning both at a personal and a social level. In his book Van Gestel also describes the various ways in which a work precisely acquires meaning: through relating to space, through the (everyday) use of the medium, through its lingualism, through its sharing a language, through the body and through intuition.
Subjects: Art, Psychological aspects, Aesthetics
People: Kristof van Gestel (1976-)