Artforum, May 1st, 2004
HERMANN NITSCH
MIKE WEISS GALLERY
There are many paths to ecstasy. Some, pace Blake, lead down the road of excess, while others go the way of asceticism. The relationship between heightened states of mind and the process of artmaking has always been close, with the construction of icons, their erasure, and the hard contemplation of color serving as perennial avenues to revelation.
The latest evidence of a nascent trend in the art world toward gnomic, incantatory, and psychedelic ways of creating-alongside the rekindled interest in elder visionaries such as Joanjonas and Charlemagne Palestin...
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