Sitko Coming To Europe
Thursday, September 5, 1991
Max Springer, the native Californian artist now painting in northern Europe, is having his first major European exhibition on October 18 to 27, 1991 in Utrecht, Holland at the:
The show is the premier of "Sitko", a chronicle of Max's observations of the primal.
Converging thoughts about our origin, use of the canine spirit to guard the unconscious throughout history, and entry into our primal mind concern us here. His titles refer to Cerberus, quote Ouspensky ("Outside the door, a pack of frozen wolves"), give credit to Jamaike Highwater's children's book "I Wear The Morning Star"(about a native child named Sitko receiving the gift of painting from the spirit of a fox), give homage to teachings of many native American teachers, and are informed of James Hillman and Robert Bly's work with the darker side of our natures. A peculiar distillation of western American thought is then uprooted from the land of Jamaike Highwater and brought to the land of Joseph Bueys (who first brought the wolf to New York).
The wolf hasn't appeared in The Netherlands in years. To protect himself, the wolf has entered into the artist, and in exchange the artist uses the eyes of the wolf to see the world in the lupine way (Kweo has long been the eyes of native people). These wolves looking from within connect us. Our birth together through our death together. The first calendar to no calendar. These paintings are calendars of our primal mind. The embedded knowledge of time and the animal, void of our defnitions and words, crying to the world heart about her age.
Crying to be seen, from within.
Vorheen Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst
Achter de Dom 14
