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Article: Memory has become more important to me over the past few years. The outside world impinges on us so much today that it has become almost impossible to depict anything else.
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- June 22, 2008
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OVER THE YEARS, I have been involved with a lot of isms. They don't simply disappear, of course, but are somehow still present even in my most recent pictures. I am, so to speak, eclectic within my own oeuvre, selecting things from the various isms that I mix into something new. I have been working long enough to establish my own tradition, from realism through Surrealism, art informel, automatism, and I don't know how many other isms. I had to go through all of that--just imagine that I knew nothing about any of these movements when I studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Art at the beginning of the 1940s. If you look at my early paintings, you will see how much it took ...