Opera
Opera began with my discovery of the felt-tip pen in 1952. With this I could work not only with a fairly precise, even blackness, like India ink, but also with gradations of gray which were not fuzzy...
View ArticleThe Invisible Painting, 1960
Very generally: The future of art, if it is to have any future, must be based on a synthesis. I regard most modern art as an experimental field for separate discoveries and solutions, the unity of...
View ArticleManipulera världen
I mina variabla målningar får jag fram elementens typ eller karaktär på ett konkret sätt genom att skära ut en silhuett i plast och plåt. Formtypen blir på så vis fixerad och handgriplig, "levande" som...
View ArticleSpel, 1965
Ett spel i allmängiltigaste mening förutsätter endast en sak: regler. Spelaren vid en spelautomat kan vara en; två som tävlar; tjugo som tävlar; tjugo som spelar individuellt.Min elementära tolkning av...
View ArticleExcerpt from "Sausages and Tweezers — A Running Commentary", 1966
A game in its most universal meaning requires only one thing: rules. A player at a slot machine can be a single person, two competing, twenty competing, or twenty playing individually.My basic...
View ArticleOn Monopoly Games, 1971
My Monopoly game paintings consist of 200-230 painted magnetic elements on a painted metal board. They deal with world trade, world politics, the left and the right in USA, Indochina, and CIA vs. Third...
View ArticleS.O.M.B.A. (Some of My Basic Assumptions), 1971-73
1. Basic Assumption All people are different, but everyone is of equal worth. 2. Class. Needs. Marxism is about destroying class differences, not differ- ences between individuals."From everyone...
View ArticleHistorical Painting, 1973
I always admired novelists and comic-strip artists for their "God-like" power of recreating realities on any level. In the series of Notes (1 to 9) I started scribbling a mixture of figures and writing...
View ArticleTake Care of the World, 1975
1. Art — Consider art as a way of experiencing a fusion of "pleasure" and "insight", Reach this by impurity, or multiplicity of levels, rather than by reduction.
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