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Our parents' generation made up concepts to secure themselves a really great place in art history. Today, everything is thrown together in a polymorphous way, and as an artist all you can do is try to come up with a position. But every gesture has been used; every saying has been said. So there you are, and you think: shit, some stupid Jeff Koons remark in some art book is worth more than the crap I make. I've carried out minimalist experiments; I've drawn cubes and squares-in order to apprehend myself by means of my own body. One million dots per square meter, a drawing that takes months to make. Perseverance. This also implies the danger of becoming too illustrative, like Reiner Ruthenbeck, who knocks a sheet of paper around with a pencil for hours. I do the same thing, but I try to gain a greater distance to these experiments. What I want to phase out completely is whether or not this is in or not, whether it's already been done. The one thing I want to achieve is not to become a cliché. That I'm not standing at a gas station one day and a TV team comes along and asks, "What do you have to say about the rise in gasoline prices?" and I answer, "It's a big scam!" Ever since the '50s, everything has been revolving, there's no real point of connection. It's all a lot of hot air, all CO2.
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