I would like to say that I am proud to have begun
the whole era "together," "before" or at the same time as Kosuth, but
there is nobody to share my pride. Nevertheless my pride is still there.
<...> Were there previously letters, words, and text? Of course. Thus as
there were things and objects before Rauschenberg. However all these texts
or works with text became "legalized" only after being included in the
information streams.
In my works I completely deny the traditional
attributes of the fine arts, be it colors, subject, presence or
participation of the artist and still more things, but I endlessly enjoy
seeing great works by modern artists where mastery cannot be evaluated by
traditional means, where smeared scraps of paper with amazing ease
extend - or loosen - the limits of another Great Art.
From the artist's notes
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