Art Today

Thomas Hirschhorn said in Art Today, “Utopia does not interest me.  Utopia is only meaningful when I try and put it into practice and when I have the courage to surrender to potential failure and not run away when confronted with the fear of disaster.  I think Utopia has to be created in the here and now.  I have never been interested in the Utopia of the past.  And it must not become trendy either.  Utopia must never be left in the hands of politicians and sociologists.  As an artist I want to try and accept responsibility for this in and through my work… It is not a question of being responsible for a success or a failure, but of taking responsibility for the desire for Utopia.  If I am filled with this desire and acknowledge it then you cannot speak of failure, regardless of the result.  Failure in this case would be a lack of desire.” (2003:245)

So whether an artwork is successful, which depends on the artist’s extent of desire when he did it instead of final expression.  I will never and ever get the criticism from any viewers towards my finished work excluding something that appears to go against Utopia, cause I tried my best to finish every piece of my work with full of my desire.  If it happens, I will say you did not get the meaning of the work.  The suggestion or criticism only exists in the process of creating.