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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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For many years I hoped to have an exhibition in China, because of my family connection.
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In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.
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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 am personally happy for artists to make as much money as they can while they can to carry them through the times when they can't.
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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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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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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 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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You can take things from the past, from the culture, from the immediate past and things that have not yet entered the culture, so they have no history yet. You can create your own context.
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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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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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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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If I did not love the things that I do, how could I spend my life doing this? You have to invest what you spend your life doing with pleasure.
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If you were really interested in being creative in teaching, it was possible to try new methods and that was really what we did in Goldsmiths - we used the freedom of the time.
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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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