Fonlad Festival

The Unknown Artist Virtual Museum: the art concept that is based on is directly linked to the concept of authorship and the promotion of art in the contemporary art system, which is questioned by the Unknown Artist. “A man, any genius, who live in the heart of Africa and produce every day extraordinary pictures, with no no one to see, does not exist. Consequently, it can be considered the existence of one hundred thousand geniuses that has been suicide, killed, and that disappear because they do not have been able to ensure they were known, to impose and experience the glory. I have doubt about the value of judgments that decided that all those pictures should be exposed in The Louvre instead of others who were never considered and that there could be” (Marcel Duchamp). The Unknown Artist Virtual Museum is against the mainstream of galleries, the power of curators and commissioners that impose to the public and the market its hone tastes. The Unknown Artist Virtual Museum is exclusively..

The Unknown Artist Virtual Museum: the art concept that is based on is directly linked to the concept of authorship and the promotion of art in the contemporary art system, which is questioned by the Unknown Artist. “A man, any genius, who live in the heart of Africa and produce every day extraordinary pictures, with no no one to see, does not exist. Consequently, it can be considered the existence of one hundred thousand geniuses that has been suicide, killed, and that disappear because they do not have been able to ensure they were known, to impose and experience the glory. I have doubt about the value of judgments that decided that all those pictures should be exposed in The Louvre instead of others who were never considered and that there could be” (Marcel Duchamp). The Unknown Artist Virtual Museum is against the mainstream of galleries, the power of curators and commissioners that impose to the public and the market its hone tastes. The Unknown Artist Virtual Museum is exclusively..

Five people are talking around a table. Whispering a secret among them. What is the secret?

Who is the Unknown Artist?

During centuries the works of art had survived without the tyranny of the name of the author. At the medieval time the goal was the construction of great cathedrals, where arquitects, sculptors and painters worked in set to build the project. The work was more important than the authors.
The Renaissance came and change this: the illuminated artist, distinct from the common mortal (as God), aspire to immortality…
And art was never more the same. Therefore, from this moment, the name's author would come to the front of the workmanship.
In our days we look to art and we do not see it trouly. We need the name of the author to glorify hes work.
The Unknown Artist refuses the laureat of fame, the judgment of critics and the shame of rejection by exhibition juraters, the mainstream of galleries and exhibition centers, mined by the system from the inside.
The Unknown Artist is a rebel, does not obey to standards, fashi






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The artist puts himself as a travel agent doing self portraits in major cities and artistic events.