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an internal cohesion. What such an ‘organic’ work of art expresses is nothing other than self-perpetuating productivity .7 Buedts’ work refers to the Romantic Waldeinsamkeit, or ‘forest solitude’, in which nature dominates as an untameable wilderness. The dark side of nature exhibits a facet in which the cherishing, curative alliance between Man and nature turns into its antithesis. The more disorienting, pessimistic dark side conveys the fear of absolute solitude that, ulti mately, is the fear of death.
z.t. [Untitled], 1978 Potlood op papier / Pencil on paper, 33,5 x 21,5 cm Privécollectie / Private collection
Wim Van Mulders
Buedts examines Man’s place in nature, which is not founded on a predetermined harmony. Blindness to the differentness of art was seen by the Romantics as the basic cause of the crisis in culture. This idea nestles in Buedts’ actions and thoughts. He has a deep uneasiness about and aversion to the rapid change of seasons in the conformist culture industry. 7. For a philosophical description of Romanticism, see Frank Vande Veire, Als in een donkere spiegel. De kunst in de moderne filosofie (SUN, Amsterdam, 2002), p. 61- 92.