Artis in Yasni Exposé of Joseph Walter Robert Kruzdlo

Hello Robert, Your question was: “How does an internet addict like F. van der W. kills you on internet?Is one line hate for a genuine genius or rather an ordinary sexism?” Like F. van der W. the internet addicts, how do they behave online? In my opinion it includes obsessively online stalking, the collection of personal data, including their online photo collection, addresses, phone numbers, and ´activ logging.´ They even make themselves prominent if you search on the victim´s name on the internet-highway, by tricking the so called spiders of the search engines, available on the web. Like this you not only become a victim, but automatically also the cause. The stories the internet addict publishes about his victims are always negative, shocking and provoke morbid reactions. As a narcissistic web-junk, he wants to frequently humiliated by new visitors of his website. That's what I see and read on F. Van der W. blogs and web pages. One of the most horrible internet addicts I know, is a Dutch artist. (FvdW) He fits the profile of the compulsive internet user. He seems to spend his time indulging in digital variations of real-world vices, such as stalking and collecting personal data and sm-pornography. See his status on Google. It is striking how many hours internet addicts spend surfing the web, trading stocks, messaging and blogging, and more and more also become addicted to online videogames. Evidence of the general acceptance of this phenomenon as a real and damaging one is the listing of Internet Gaming Disorder in Conditions for further study, in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM 5) which was published on May 2013. The Dutch artist F. van der W. is always looking for new comments from his visitors, he lures them by offending religious groups, sexism and shouting in a kind of judicial language – he blames his visitors as soon as they try to execute him rightfully. It is clear he has a serious problem, the visitor is powerless. This is an issue that needs an official psychiatric diagnosis, but internet addiction seems to be picking up steam even without DSM 5 endorsement. But as with many addicts, the Dutch artist (F.red van der Wal. the man of the measles drawings) suffered a relapse, losing countless hours (twelve hours a day) to blogs, online films, and instant-messaging. He´s stalking through the web and is not afraid to use vulgar words like c*nt or d*ck. But besides his online provoking and pathological web collections he has 15 self-published books, and there are more to come. Printed on pulp paper, cheapest editing and paid out of his own pocket. Nothing from himself and everything stole from Internet; from people who know anything about his obsession. The vulgar has no creativity. Like schoolchildren, loot and steal from Internet, pirating and writing texts of others. He calls himself the only ´Web Genius´ in the Netherlands, and he hopes to become immortal like Marquis de Sade in prison. Even then he will write stories, borrowing the lyrics from others with their blood. Thanks, Walther Joseph Salomon Off. New Yorker discussionroom USA New York

    Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER Published: July 9, 2007 The New York Times Dutch Sell Art on eBay More than 1,000 paintings, statues and other objects from the Dutch national art collection are going on sale through eBay, Agence France-Presse reported. The government’s decision, a response to the cost of conserving the works, has outraged some artists and cheered others. “They called me the Picasso of Amsterdam,” complained one painter, Robert Kruzdlo. “I do not paint rubbish.”  

ARTNET NEWS ROBERT KRUZDLO They called me the Picasso of Amsterdam.   "They called me the Picasso of Amsterdam. I did not paint rubbish,"painter Robert Kruzdlo complained to the NRCNext newspaper. His work, Fear and Powerlessness of theThird World War, is now on eBay because the ICN decided it was"without artistic merit and historic significance." On July 6 the highest bid for the painting was $250. July 12, 2007 DUTCH ART DEALS ON EBAY The Instituut Collectie Nederland, the organization that manages the approximately 100,000 artworks and other items in the Dutch state’s art collection, is deaccessioning in a big way. Some 300 works -- primarily furniture -- are being put on the block in the fall at The Hague’s Venduehuisauction house. In the meantime, some 1,000 artworks are being auctioned off on Dutch eBay between now and October, at the expeditious rate of 50 per week. Many of these paintings and sculptures were produced in the 1980s in response to a government scheme that offered Dutch artists a stipend in exchange for donations of work to the state collection. A spokesperson for the ICN cited the cost of storing the works, and stated flatly that the "government was not looking to make money from the artworks but to get them off the state’s hands." Thus, a program once deemed admirably generous to artists now seems to have turned around to bite them in the butt -- as journalist Lee Rosenbaum noted on her CultureGrrlblog, U.S. institutions refrain from selling off work by living artists so as not to hurt their careers, while the ICN is making no bones about describing the eBay works as "without artistic merit and historic significance." (This is what passes as a sales pitch in Holland?) The fire sale atmosphere led at least one of the artists, Robert Kruzdlo, to tell the Agence France-Press indignantly, "They called me the Picasso of Amsterdam. I did not paint rubbish." The painting currently going for €350 Euro. On the other hand, the sell-off may be a chance for fans to get their hands on a bargain bit of Dutch creativity. Lots currently on view on eBay range from C. Makkink’s colorful 1973 Blaauwbaard, a painting of a topless woman with a man who sports an enormous blue beard, currently going for €455, to a space-age white cabinet studded with flashing flashbulbs, titled Mankind Is Destruction and stalled in the bidding at €21 as of this writing.

The QUAQUANTITY of things, which comprises everything inside yourself as well as everything outside yourself. Who is Robbie Kruzdlo? An introduction to his work. It has become habit to focus on the constant changes that Robert Kruzdlo makes in his works of art. The speed with which Robbie Kruzdlo changes from one subject to the next is not incomprehensible: it is in his nature. He burdens his audience with a sense of discontinuity, while he himself maintains at a self-confident ease. Not many people will thank him for this, or will they…? Surely the attentive spectator must be able to recognize the same artist in all those different styles. Fortunately, most people do. Robbie Kruzdlo’s work surprises people. It takes one off guard, and forces one to search for the constant element in all the change that one sees. Because there is indeed something of a silent continuity hidden in the permanent change. Many philosophers wouldn’t have any problem with this. Think about Nietzsche, who preferred constant change to imitate the beauty of life. Kruzdlo’s expressiveness takes on this shape, which is in fact indefinable. The discontinuity of his style is essential to this shape. The spectator sees disorder, chaos and confusion. Meeting Robbie Kruzdlo himself feels like flying from life to death, from structuralism to deconstruction. Whoever gets to meet him, must surrender to his amazing honesty, which many people will find difficult to do. Robbie Kruzdlo is a European, especially a Catalonian European, but he is more than that. He is a citizen of the world who has lived in five different countries. Kruzdlo has participated in several artistic projects in different towns and cities, one of them being a series of aquarelle paintings on and in Girona, Catalonia, in 1972. Many other projects followed: Kruzdlo has done drawings, sculptures, music, theatre and other performances. For the project ‘Muziek Totaal’ in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 1989, Robbie Kruzdlo made a very successful series of film compositions to go with silent movies directed by the Catalonian film maker Buñuel and several others. Many invitations followed from within different Dutch cities. Sure enough Kruzdlo feels at home in all artistic genres, because he is also a writer. Robbie Kruzdlo expresses himself on his web log, which is part of one of Holland’s leading newspapers, but also through a Dutch radio station and in conversations with other intellectuals. Robert Kruzdlo loves writing complex, sometimes illogical stories, that are incomprehensible to other people, whoever and wherever they are. But to some people the stories do make sense and they are the ones who get to understand Kruzdlo. When they do, they will find themselves awaking with a shock, suddenly realizing the beauty of Kruzdlo’s works of art. This exposition in Girona Casa Cultural is Kruzdlo’s third project on Girona, Catalonia. Catalonia was and is a region that he can tell many fascinating stories about. This exposition comprises fifty drawing of faces. Kruzdlo doesn’t want to call them portraits, but countenances. Behind every face is a different person. It is not easy to explain, but those who enjoy Levinas might understand it. Take a look for yourself, every face has regained its countenance. These drawings, these countenances of the Gironese people, are part of Kruzdlo’s honest and spontaneous ways of describing life in the Catalonian city. This spontaneity is in contrast with the so called battle he has fought. Anywhere in the world, travelers like Robert Kruzdlo, who move from town to town, from country to country, are strangers. Those strangers see things differently than the people who have embraced Girona as their hometown. Kruzdlo’s drawings symbolize conciliation. With this exposition Robbie Kruzdlo wants to express his fascination for the absolute completeness of things, but also for the quantity of things. On his Dutch web log he calls this the QUAQUANTITY of things, which comprises everything inside yourself as well as everything outside yourself. Together they form the quaquantity of life. In his work, Kruzdlo responds to this abstract creation, and all the drawings in this exposition are the result of that. The countenances you see, are human faces translated by Kruzdlo onto a piece of paper, which in all his complexity and confusion, have turned into an almost Rembrandt-like piece of art. They are part of something bigger, something greater, the world, life, the quaquantity. It seems as if Robbie Kruzdlo has started another project already, because time seems to be pushing him. He has probably got a new set of countenances, waiting to be exhibited to the public, as is happening here right now. For that I want to thank you. It’s always exciting when artists get to show their work in foreign countries, and I sincerely hope that many artistic exchanges will follow. Art is a universal language, it is mondaine. Or, as Robbie Kruzdlo puts it: ‘The more things change, the more everything stays the same’.