Don Quixote  Has Died

exhibition in “Icar” Gallery  2003

 

The current exhibition does not illustrate the adventures of Don Quixote. The exhibition reveals the Way of Despair.  From the lunacy of Idealism, through the rude awakening of living, to the Despair and Death.

Art creates Idealists, life kills them…

Don Quixote did not die from the sword of the Evil, rather from the poison of Despair….

He realized that he fought Windmills, that Evil has no personification and cannot be overpowered.

There is no place in life for Don Quixote, and he left… Yet to appear time and again like a ghost reminding us that there is no need of Idealism in Life….

Outside Temples, beyond the cover pages of books, beyond the frames of paintings, the Faith in Good and Justice dies…

Don Quixote died, but left his ghost to remind us that without Faith in the Good - the human in us dies…

 

Spartak Dermenjiev 2003