Christian Megert

i want to build a new space,
a space without beginning and end,
where everything lives and is invited to live,
a space quiet and loud, immovable and moving.
i want it to be high, as high as i like, and as low as i like.
it has to be accessible, the area may be small or big as a town, a country
or even a thought.
this space, merry and full of vitality,
of colour and movement,
requesting quiet contemplation without
demands, colourless and cold,
must be able to change with the speed of thought
according to my wishes, that is how i want it.
because it is real and surreal and constructive
and informal and colourful and colourless,
representational and unrepresentational, naive and intellectual and simultaneous,
it will not be in need of art,
because it is art itself.
and those who live in this space will be amo

Christian Megert from his manifesto "A New Space" 1961