Reinhard Skoracki: De docta ignorantia (The Learned Lesson of Ignorance)

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Reinhard Skoracki, "Close the Curtains and put the Shadows Away," 2017

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Opening Reception, Saturday, October 14th from 2 to 5 pm. Artist in Attendance. 

De docta ignorantia is also is the title of philosopher Nikolaus von Kues’ main work which translates to “The Learned Lesson of Ignorance”, which is a paradox in itself. Relating to my sculptures where many questions are asked but not answered with the underlying provocative thesis that true knowledge abides in the consciousness of ignorance. As Socrates already said: “I know that I don’t know”. And Karl Popper added: “And not even that!” 

Art can offer great visual pleasure, combining qualities from reality and imagination, criticism and humor. It can create a powerful atmosphere and dynamism in which art and philosophy balance in a  new continuity and a new awareness of man’s reality in interacting with his world and existence. The artist decides to reform reality from his personal point of view, portraying dreams and conflicts of today’s life and culture; an investigation into the human condition as an individual and in larger social structures.The opus is a catalogue of memory and experience, of the everyday, of the yesterday, of the anticipated tomorrow, harmonized in an image.