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Michael Craig-Martin
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Michael Craig-Martin
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: August 28
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Dublin city
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I would never put a sculpture in front of a painting, so that it is difficult to see the painting. I always place each thing so you can see it isolated. You can focus on every individual work.
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[I] don't want people to see it [paintings] as a specific intention on my part. If somebody has that interest in these objects, of course they can see that, but from my own point of view, I'd rather stay as neutral as possible.
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My idea for every exhibition is we should be able to see every individual work without being distracted by the others, and it doesn't matter if it's quite crowded.
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As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history.
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The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.
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I wanted to make new works of very contemporary objects, which I thought was interesting because many of them are manufactured in China, but these objects are universal, they go across all languages, all cultures.
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I think the best approach is not to be too much like the thing that they are referring to, see it as a guide.
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The viewer brings all additional information to the image.
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I've taken away everything I could think of, and yet what remains is enough. These days many more people come to my work, and once they see my work they will always recognize it.
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I had been doing wall drawings, but they were always black and white. Then in 1993 I painted all the walls of a room to make an installation and as soon as I saw the colour on the walls, it changed my whole life.
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At the Summer Exhibition, I didn't really change anything it's the same exhibition. All I changed is the presentation. I didn't really change the rules.
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It's just that some things more important for this and less important for that, and this is true regardless the style of the art.
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There is no doubt when one comes from the West to China one understands pop art as having originally developed as part of Western tradition. There is a historical development, in which things find resonance in different places.
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In the studio, it took me a long time to work out how to make paintings that had the intensity that I was able to create by painting whole rooms. There is a very limited number of colours but there are many variations. I decided to use the purest palette that I could.
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All the basic information should be in the object itself.
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Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations my painting came from installation.
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When I look at the objects that I draw, it seems to me so obvious about the contemporary world - these are our world.
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It's important for me to give each thing the possibility to speak and also to allow artworks speak to each other.
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Usually when I go to the Summer Exhibition, I think every room is too much the same, and I loose my capacity to look at individual works.
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I look at the character of the exhibition and I treat it as I would a painting or an installation. When I did the Summer Exhibition at Royal Academy, I did it exactly as I would when making a new work.
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