Presence

Mistranslations occur and if somebody is talking of "postcontemporary art", it's incorrect to mingle "contemporary" and "present". An artist may not be interested in being contemporary. When Raimund Stecker asked us about this term and what it means to us I replied citing the title of a sculpture by Thierry de Cordier that I had seen recently: "Je n'ai absolument rien à voir avec le xxe siècle"/"I've absolutely nothing to do with the twentieth century." At the time the twentieth century was still contemporary. Being contemporary is thus a concept that artists may discard and have discarded.
Presence on the other side is hopefully a concept that will remain importatnt in any field of art because there's hardly any human activity that depends so much on it. I certainly love those works of art best that present something, that incorporate a presence. Something I strongly feel in Barnett Newman's works.
By the way "our minds function with a small delay".



The chess player is  world-renowned painter Luc Tuymans ;).