...bisogna morire

There has to bee always two news!!!

One good and one bad, so the very, very nice and great news is that one of my closest friends get married, so I want to use this opinion to congratulate them. She is very, very talent and a great person and she speaks very well Italian and so I will use a “sonata” from Stefano Lundi: “Homo Fugit Velut Umbra” to speak about my performance I did before I actually heard the bad news…

O come t’inganni
se pensi che gl’anni
non hann’da finire,
bisogna morire.

The first photo shows you me (the artist) pointing to the sky, the heaven, the paradise… Does it exist? I don’t know. But what I do know is that he is not longer under us!!!

E’un sogno la vita
che par si gradita,
è breve il gioire,
bisogna morire.
Non val medicina,
non giova la China,
non si può guarire,

bisogna morire.

So the best I can do is to forget it (him) and to go away! OR??? DO I?? CAN I???

La Morte crudele
a tutti è infedele,
ogn’uno svergogna,
morire bisogna.
E’ pur ò pazzia
o gran frenesia,
par dirsi menzogna,
morire bisogna.

But how cruel, how deep or how emotional can we be in our arrogant world? I am sure there will be soo many “Fish-isme” that explains you such arrogant place, so could sleep well.., but sorry Mr. President I can’t…

I Giovanni, i putti
e gl’Huomini tutti
s’hann’a incenerire,
bisogna morire.
I sani, gl’infermi,
i bravi, gl’inermi,
tutt’hann’a finire
bisogna morire.
E quando che meno
ti pensi, nel seno
ti vien a finire,
bisogna morire.
Se tu non vi pensi
hai persi li sensi,
sei morto e puoi dire :
bisogna morire.

The second (bad) news was that my dog Bobby (Bobi) is death and he had to die… He was not to old, he was not ill, he just was not made for this world… he was a dangerous creature in our such peaceful world, so he just has to disappear.. What we did in our so peaceful world – we killed himmmmmm!!!!

The third photo after going away shows me on the same place – the heaven we choose to be ours… in a pose of J.Ch. I show you the paradise, to just walk away again after all.

Do we really deserve to go to heaven after all?

Only a kid for a moment

My story stops here for the moment…
...are we damned? Someone says once the art is death – Sorry to say this but all of you who think like this be sure there will not be a place for you in the history, neither in heaven…

If you just try to be popular?

If you just try to be like Jim Morrison – Rock is death!!!

Sorry man but an abstraction can’t die!!! Art lives longer than the Pearson who made it.. Everyone hates Van Gogh, the group Bridge “Die Bruecke” were hunted by Hitler and almost destroyed – Picasso was in the beginning like a figure to laugh at...but hey DO YOU REALLY THINK ART CAN DIE!!!???
I guess not…

And we have so many posssssibbbillieties – I show you here on my blog some…

...and if you are curious than -
come on the 19^th June to Avignon to the L`Attelier and you will see the ART lives forever!!!

the ART lives forever

lives forever

forever...

Much longer than I will!!!!

3 Kings inspired by the famiile Rotheneuf

19th June in the l`Attelier in Avignon there will be an exhibition / happening made by me and Milvus (the artist warrior) – Everyone is welcome!!!

Racism is a weapon of mass destruction

Everyone is not better or worst than the other one!
People have not always the same color,
People do not have always the same religion,
People just don’t …
Still people are people…

Do we really need an alien nation who wants to conquer us to understand that it do not matter who you are, where you come from or what language you speak…

We will always be different but still the same – People living on the earth, eating the same bread – Share the same sun…

This work is called “the universal Face – we can eat it!”

Made with farin and water – we have to understand! We are all made from the same material, we just look different, but still

– YES WE ARE THE SAME!!!

Is this just a drawing Mr. Sehic?

Seeking help, pleasure-seeking,
Seeking help, self-seeking.
I try to admire, to admit what I desire,
But instead of I traveled to the end of the world,
But you can’t extinguish the fire
That seeks for more! That seeks for higher…

So I draw my lines,
My portraits, my people, my scene
The imitation of life,
The colors that I am seeding
And blue was my first harvest,
And so I became an Artist!

Still on my way, my wa
I “gonnna” love you.
Not a story, just a little bit of truth…

The Artist King he shall be,
The Artist King, he is coming,
The Artist King is on his way,
Is it just a drawing, I “wannna” to say,
Or do I ask?
And her name “the Seeking” should be,
Is it just a drawing, or a piece of me,

Seeking help, pleasure-seeking,
Seeking help, self-seeking.
There are just few words,
I guess not; when I am speaking…
And it is more than just a drawing
Every line is more than a line,
When I am drawing…

Self-awareness or hare-brained
Psycho or greatness instanced…
This drawing is not a scrap of evidence,
My greatest Art-Work is my Self-confidence!

And the color of blue!

The return of the wizard

Hi everyone,

... this is the drawing I am working on it and I would like to ask for your opinion / comment / what do you think I want to tell / say / mention by this work? The work is not finish and “We will see what it will be when it’s finish…” just do not work here. I know exactly what I want to say, but I also would like to know what you / my friends thinks about it and no matter if you like it or not – just be earnest and please tell me a little story – WHAT DO YOU SEE AND WHAT DO YOU THINK I AM DRAWING??? You can comment here or email me on dzennan@gmx.net, very long with millions of details or just a short / few sentences letter – I will take my time, I will read all of them and the story I like mostly will become the description of this work and will be published (include your name) on my next exhibition / catalogue and here on my blog – however I finish it and with this drawing I remind you again of a painting I did few days ago, that inspires this story… If you do not want your story to be published or your name, please mention it. Thank you all and don’t forget to give the work (story) a name.

morire bisogna - Detail from Part 2

In epic history (I really like the 20` - 50` th Hollywood and Walt Disney’s movies) we saw so many heroes and I think (maybe I am wrong, but still it is what I think) the movies from this period tried to show us the great spirit of some people and when I say great it do not means positive.. Have you seen Napoleon, Or Ben Hur??? ... or let’s be a little bit more contemporain and go to the end of the XX`th century (Kubricks Shining – Jack Nickolson...) great spirit... the ambience and the actors abilities were amazing!!! Inspired by this spirit, the song from Stefano Lundi and the legend from the ancient city of Sparta and a very new film that I saw few days ago - "300" I start to make my second work and here I show you some details from the background of my work...

Enjoy them until my work is finish!

Bisogna Morire - Part 1

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...Si more cantando si more sonando la Cetra o Sampogna morire bisogna Si more danzando bevendo mangiando con quella carogna morire bisogna ...

I Giovani i Putti e gl'Huomini tutti s'hann'a incenerire bisogna morire I sani gl'infermi i bravi gl'inermi tutt'hann'a finire bisogna morire E quando che meno ti pensi nel seno ti vien a finire bisogna morire Se tu non vi pensi hai persi li sensi sei morto e puoi dire bisogna morire

Somewhere under and between this drawing is also a drawing from my cute little Marie... So this work, inspired by Stefano Lundi - "homo fugit velut umbra" , made in pencil / grafic technic I decide to call Bisogna morire part one, because at the moment I am working on part two!!!

the new day!

Today it was a very funny day and since long time I try again something new, something that I never did before - and now...I will have to do it again...

And here we go – the new day has arrived, I am still playing with grandpa Milvus the decision where and how much "exhis" we will/want (and if) have. But until that I can not just drink beer, smoke the nargille and do nothing, I prefer to do something and than to drink the beer and to smoke the nargilleeeeeej ;)...

The next time I will have to have colors and than we will see what can a man do on the ground. Here in Avignon we have a place where the young creative people can explain their selves – where they can use some walls and make some very interesting draw/paint/graffiti and for few days I will have to join them than it is just exiting to make something that we never do normally...

... and when I say normally I actually means something that we didn’t do every day!

So let’s have fun and be the children in us for one day at least :)

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and the final product

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Action means Reaction

"Prove your dignity if you are a King.... Challenge me, lets do a project AK VS AW, an exhibition..." wrote milvus on the May 04, 2007 4:10 PM in his comment to my post “Old school on the road up ways”

Dear Milvus,
King & Warrior (since when do a King challenge a warrior???)…

But if you want to challenge me I would be glad to kick your ass!
Please read this very carefully and all, than we do not want to step on each others ego.. hehehe…

I am on the way to become the Artist King, no less, no more. And to do this I will have to fight and to prove myself a lot of time, but even if you challenge me it will not change a lot of, because You my friend are my swordsman, my NAKAMA (and this means someone who is with you / Colleague, Kamerad, Companion, - someone who follows you because of his own goals and his own reasons, but still follows) – we already has two exhibitions together, so I do not see the reason not to continued…

I am glad to see that you listen to me and finally made your blog about YOUR WORKS (everyone can see it by clicking his name above or by clicking here) and do not think that I did not liked the other blog (by clicking here) but there are so many people speaking about sooo much, I prefer to see the mans work than to listen to him! Like you said once “God creates the world…” he did not spoke about someone others creation …

So Milvus ac Artist Warrior if you still want to challenge the Artist King just do it, but be sure that this battle will goes on a very long period, because just a little exhibitions it will not be enough :)…But one exhibition we have to do before I go… the battle when (if) it starts it will goes on no matter where I will be! ;)

And never forget- I am just a boy with a hat who lives his dream and who seems to dream his life, still just a boy who kicked so many before and just for his little ambition, to become the Artist King!
Maybe the greatest of all!

Cheers! ;)
Dzenan Sehic

Old school on the road up ways

When you have to fight with an enemy who has a spear of war, practically undestroyed and so hard and so powerful that everyone has heard about it; is the only solution you can do to punch it! Maybe more than one, but one you decide to fight there should not be gong back! No compromises and nothing less than the victory! On my way to become the Artist King, even if there are people thinking that something like an artist king does not exist; I have to fight a lot of fights but hey it is my choice…and this is the look inside of a fight (the work in progress).

And please do me a favor – don’t believe everything “so-called” artist say, ART IS NOT EVERYTHING IN A GALLERY, neither everything made by “so-called” artist and I could kill myself by hitting my head on a gallery wall, so that a little bit later the blood that rest on the wall becomes an artwork or the whole act filmed by an amateur becomes a performance – sorry but I think there is more and the truth is somewhere outside!

The work on his way to become an artwork or just finish - the battle still goes on and I will have my victory! Vini, Vidi, Vici and draw, modelated and painted all I wanted durng my journey...!

Minus 65€ / month"ly"

I do not know how it could happen but the world does not understand me any more... could be the title of this painting that I am working on it at the moment! But somehow there was this little moment when I had put down the pencil (just for a while) and since then not one single line. Now the most artists (alias new-age philosophy I am to lazy to learn drawing people) would say that I do not have the inspiration to continue. Picasso (alias a real artist, lazy I can be when I am death) would say that I do not have enough balls to attack the painting and to finish it before it finishes me. And like I already wrote few times here is a new moment where I have to choose again:

- do I want to be the new age I am too lazy and to craven to continue

- or will I fight to the bitter end and than we will see who will win…

I guess on my way to the ALL BLUE I actually do not have a really choice – Once long time ago I have chosen to become the Artist King, so in few days we will see my new entry and the cadaver (alias one more step to the first masterpiece) of my new / finish painting witch will cost me at least 65€ this month!

The battle begins...

From my journey to Paris

I added on my sidebar a little diary-link about my journey to Paris and here is a nice slide-show PR from this trip (check it out) - ;P

...this will be enough !

One way, other one and one more and than go left, right or just straight, than one turn u and an other one down and you in the middle of no-where…

A simply music is coming out of your boxes and you just feel apart, where you go? Where you come from and the only one important question for every little thing that happened – WHY???

There is good chance to screw up by choosing the wrong way and you will never answer the all WHY-s that you will ask yourself during your life but instead of it you could start with little baby-steps like my fish is doing ;) he do not think so much and I am pretty sure that I am not much more happy than he – it means one thing after the other.

- today I will do that and I can do it here and yes I can prepare myself for tomorrow but I cannot think about what will happened if I do this or that tomorrow?? If you choose to go left or right do not ask yourself what will you have to choose after choosing one direction and what has happened if you had – because you did not!!

Move left and right, enjoy the music and stop thinking about saving the world…instead of it save yourself and maybe some people around you and this will be enough !

Deprivation of progressive art-works

During the renaissance the genius was all over the air, everywhere. After it the baroque comes and the periods just changes, one died and one other just stands up like a phoenix from ashes and dust and try to reach the heaven a little bit higher that the period beside.

Decision is one period in our life where we choose to reach the heaven or to go straight to hell? Can we choose not to choose? What would if…, we can keep asking us or we just make the next step and try to understand. But to understand what?

1). I am like I am and you are like you are!
2). I have my way and you have your!
3). You are not the center of my world, because I am!
4). If you becomes the center of my world than it will be love!
5). I can decide for me and for you, but you can choose if I decide for you!
6). Whatever I do I have to live with it as well as the rest of the world only 24 hours a day until the end of my life.
7). I cannot be Michelangelo as well you neither, but I can choose to become better as you as well!
8). You can hate or love me but you have not to share your moments with me.
9). I can hate or love you and still share or not my moments with you!

And finally I am I and You are You and if we meet once we can spend the rest of our life together or not, but if it is so and we do not like each other than go in peace your way and I will do the same and go my way, than you cannot change me if I am not willing to change and you have to understand that you are not the center of any worlds beside your own world and probably once the world of the one who really loves you!

And when you understand all this than you can choose and the renaissance will live in you as much as it lives once in Michelangelo and you will be happy and your decision will always be right...

...and all of this is what I wanted to say with every peace of this art-work called “Dzenan and Marie” – the Artist and his “MUSE”!

Mademoiselle d´Avignon et moi

One hundred years later I am standing on the same streets were Picasso was walking when he was in Avignon searching for love. Over one hundred and fifty years later I feels the Mistral on the same streets were van Gogh was once fighting with his daemons and searching for the eternal sun or simply one apsint more. Who knows?

If I don’t write why I made this little painting I am sure all of you will see only what is in yourself and never what I paint and why?

2 People, one combat fish with the name Bob Harris and an other one with the name Bob Valey, the stars and few cloths with each of them an own history and a meaning, but if you forget all this, than what is this that you see looking at this painting?

Ask yourself and what you see is what you feel and be sure it is not about my painting!

Evolution of works

Brancusi said once: «WORK LIKE A SLAVE, THINK LIKE A GOD AND BEE A HUMAN» and this he understood of being artist!

If we are really good in our jobs, we will bee seen like gods, for it we will have to work mostly like slaves and there would never bee the time to be human, or let’s say the today’s´ normal human been, than who of us has the time and the nerves to think like a god?

This is the difference between the people who reach the ALL BLUE and the others, the one who has what it needs and the others and the people who find their own way and the others (they just follow). Now ask yourself – Are you a follower? Everyone is capable to be a leader and everyone can be as good in art as Michelangelo was, but not everyone can sacrifice what it needs to lead and to be at the top of the Olympus.

In every man’s / woman’s life there are few moments of change and when they get the feeling of doing the right and of being capable to do everything they want to, but few moments later they start to ask their selves and not to be sure of decision they made. Let me say you one:

Your decision is like an art-work, performance or an idea - IT CAN EVOLUATE AND TRANSFORM, but you have to know that the different between you and the top ten are the moments of self-doubts that you have after starting living your decision.

Here is a little advice that I devoting to a friend who will go once he finishes his being on earth to Valhalla:

- Don’t bother yourself with self-doubts, once we make our decision we can transform it, it will evaluate without our influence, the only thing we have to do is to swim with the river, the trend, the current, the flow or the loop and not against it, because whatever we do there will be relaxed situation without moving and there will be riptides and mostly we cannot escape and if you cannot beet it, join it and see what is happening next and never forget to enjoy the ride you decided to take!

IDEAS GROW UP WITH YOU, AS YOU CHANGE EVERYTHING CHANGES WITH YOU AND AROUND AND YOU CANNOT STOP IT AND IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT WHY WOULD YOU TO?

*the new name for the little work is my “petite” Marie and me

Copyleft, copyright and just copy (ing)

Copyleft is a play on the word copyright and is the practice of using copyright law to remove restrictions on distributing copies and modified versions of a work for others and requiring that the same freedoms be preserved in modified versions.Copyleft is a license and may be used to modify copyrights for works such as computer software, documents, music, and art.

Copyright is a set of exclusive rights regulating the use of a particular expression of an idea or information. At its most general, it is literally "the right to copy" an original creation. In most cases, these rights are of limited duration. The symbol for copyright is ©, and in some jurisdictions may alternatively be written as either (c) or (C).

Copying is the duplication of information, or an artifact, based only on an instance of that information or artifact, and not using the process that originally generated it. With analog forms of information, copying is only possible to a limited degree of accuracy, which depends on the quality of the equipment used, and, if applicable, the skill of the operator.

Reproduction and copying that we change we can call REMAKE, but still in Art REMAKES made only talented workers without enough inspiration to create something new! Artist can use information to rebuild their own forms, but not copy it at all and call it their own art!

Or what do you think, can I call my copy (right) an art-work or maybe a masterpiece because I copied Leonardo da Vinci (left)?