© Gustav Mesmer, courtesy of Edition Patrick Frey
The call to make art isn’t so much a choice as a force compelling creation, no matter the price. Few can resist the possibility that something lays beyond the sheer will it takes to render something out of nothing at all. For all that is given, the possibility of return is a draw: fame, wealth, and legacy.
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But for the outsider artist, the reward is the act itself, creating a cycle of momentum nothing short of phenomenal. For Gustav Mesmer, the “Icarus of Lautertal”, as he came to be called, art was a way the medium through which he could express and resolve the conflict of being on earth and off at the same time. And that was enough.
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© Gustav Mesmer, courtesy of Edition Patrick Frey
© Gustav Mesmer, courtesy of Edition Patrick Frey