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I am trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.
Michael Craig-Martin
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Michael Craig-Martin
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: August 28
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All the basic information should be in the object itself.
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If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the possibility of a discourse.
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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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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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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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There is a complete difference between art and the art market. Prices are high now for the simple reason that there are people are willing to pay them. The market dominates the art world today because at the moment collectors call the shots. Like everything else that won't last forever.
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In the late 70's I started to make drawings of the ordinary objects I had been using in my work. Initially I wanted them to be ready-made drawings of the kind of common objects I had always used in my work. I was surprised to discover I couldn't find the simple, neutral drawings I had assumed existed, so I started to make them myself.
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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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I had my exhibition of paintings first in Shanghai, and then recently in Wuhan. Wuhan particularly interested me, because I am 1/8 Chinese.
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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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