Interesting quote from an interview in a German magazine with JG Ballard over on Ballardian:
An example of such extreme situations in your books involves coldly Modernist architecture.
Yes, Modernism brings with it an emptiness that seems dangerous. It’s not for nothing that 20th century dictators were fascinated by it.
Is it this emptiness that brings out the madness in Super-Cannes?
Modernism brings out the dark drives that slumber in us. It reserves no place for the unexplainable or the mysterious – and for precisely that reason causes a return to barbarism.
Because it shows everything…
Exactly. We need mystery, that little bit of poetry. Seeing everything makes you sad.
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The decline of the use value of art in society together with the end of the ornament in architecture .. the end of the mystery of art in public. Decoration enriched our lives, mass-production has turned us into units.
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