June 2009
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Gerhard Richter "Writings" 1961-2007
Just received this book in the mail today from DAP. Cracking it in bed and I’m hooked. “One has to believe in what one is doing, one has to commit oneself inwardly, in order to do painting. Once obsessed, one ultimately carries it to the point of believing that one might change human beings through painting. But if one lacks this passionate commitment, there is nothing left to do. Then...
If art is serious about claiming a central role in today’s society and...
– Maurizio Cattelan
The text does not “gloss” the images, which do not...
– For me, each has been no more than the onset of a kind of visual uncertainty, anlagous perhaps to that loss of meaning Zen calls a satori. Text and image, interlacing, seek to ensure the circulation and exchange of these signifiers: body, face, writing; and in them to read the retreat of signs. -...
Big kisses and congratulations to Rodarte for winning CFDA! J’adore...
The technique is intellectual because I am using my brain, but the result is...
– - Rei Kawakubo, Designer Comme Des Garcons on the occassion of celebrating her new line “BLACK” celebrating their 40th anniversary. (This is exactly how I feel about FirstPerson, thank you.)
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