The Crop of coincidence

An art collection can be created in various ways. In this particular case it would be pointless to look for a plan or a method. The works shown here were brought together by sheer coincidence, over several years, and in different parts of the world.Speculating on the part played by coincidence, we need only consider that the most common system of order is alphabetical, which does not express any rational order at all, but nevertheless represents order.

But do we then live entirely without order? Looking back, one easily gets the feeling, even without being religious, that chaos has not ruled completely.

Thus, a collection such as this reflects the hither-and-thithering of a lifetime, with all its coincidences and, perhaps, even the opposite of order, aimlessness.

To quote an old saying: “A place for everything, and everything in its place.” But what is coincidence? Our experience tells us, for instance, that some of the best things that have happened to us in our lives could be put down to coincidence; people we meet “by coincidence”, things we do haphazardly which turn out to change our future.

Descartes based his metaphysical order on a method of hesitation, which meant that all knowledge based on weak foundations was abandoned, and all that remained was the certainty that comes from the thought that hesitates.