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Michael Craig-Martin
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: August 28
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Dublin city
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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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My great grandmother was Chinese .
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I have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this represented a genuine division.
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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.
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All the basic information should be in the object itself.
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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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Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations my painting came from installation.
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I think from an artist's point of view, everything in art, in fact everything in the world is available as material.
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For many years I hoped to have an exhibition in China, because of my family connection.
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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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[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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Often people do not properly value things that they are good at naturally because they find them too easy. That is very problematic.
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You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.
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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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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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'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh.
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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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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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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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