Kategorie: Surfaces

Trieste, February 2020

„Graffiti is linear and it’s done with a pencil, and it’s like writing on walls. But [in my paintings] it’s more lyrical. In those beautiful early paintings like Academy, it’s graffiti but it’s something else, too. I don’t know how people ­react, but the feeling is more complicated, more elaborate. Graffiti is usually a protest – ink on walls – or has a reason for ­being naughty or aggressive.“
Cy Twombly, 2008, from an Interview with Nicholas Serota, The Guardian

Trieste, February 2020

„(…), it seems necessary to try to contest the point, because the abstractions come to a closed landscape where, lost in our private dreams, we can no longer communicate. Sooner or later we have to ask of all pictures what kind of life they promote, and some of these views suggest to me a frightening alienation from the world of appearances.“
Robert Adams, Beauty in Photography