Art, Psychology, Epistemology, Continental Philosophy.
Anything that confronts me with what I don't know, what I didn't know, or what I know in a way that I didn't expect.
Ambiguities, contradictions, tension, poetic beauty, language, neuroses, fetish, schizophrenia ... these are the qualities in a work of art as a whole that attract me the most.
Marlene Dumas Kathe Kollwitz Willem de Kooning Cy Twombly Hollis Brown Thornton Christ Pantocrator (mosaic; Monreale Cathedral, Sicily, 1180-1190) Karen Savage Monika Bielskyte Antonello da Messina Willem de Kooning (Italy, c. 1420-25)
Krzysztof Kieslowski, Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky, Kurosawa Akira, Theo Angelopoulos, Wim Wenders, Abbas Kiarostami, Ingmar Bergman, early Woody Allen, David Lynch, Kar-Wai Wong, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Jan Svankmajer ... ...
The 400 Blows, Jules et Jim (Truffaut). II Postino (Michael Radford). Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica). Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu). The Story of Qiu Ju, To Live (Yi-Mou Zhang). City of God. Before the Rain. Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore). Betty Blue. Breaking the Waves. ... ...
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Taxi Driver, A Clockwork Orange, Hotel Rwanda, Boys Don't Cry, Pink Floyd The Wall, Brokeback Mountain, Angel Heart, The Godfather, Of Mice and Men, The Shining, About Schmidt, Life is Beautiful, Capote ...
Francis Bacon, Francisco Goya, Picasso, Cy Twombly, Marlene Dumas, Eva Hesse, Käthe Kollwitz, Paula Rego, Cindy Sherman, Richard Billingham, Luc Tuymans, Eva Hesse, Giorgio Morandi, Andy Wohal, Cai Guo-Qiang, Antoni Tapies, René Magritte, Terry Winters, .... ...
Milan Kundera