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Martin Kippenberger | 1953 - 1997
"The important thing about Kippenberger is that his attentions are two lines, parallel lines. The one thing is that he is trying to entertain people and trying to shock people, all his work is that. He wants to really invent and with every piece to make something new and to be real avant-garde. All day long and with all of his heart he really does believe in nothing else but in art. He doesn't define it, his father was an artist, he is an artist and his friends are artists. I think he never asked himself why because he has no choice, he is an artist. He's very, I wouldn't say naive, but it's absolutely clear, there's no question about it. Other artists maybe ask themselves if art is finished or they are finished. He never asks himself that. As a motive for modem art he thought that social life could be motive enough. And this can show up as banality or however we find it. And if you look at the subjects he uses you start asking yourself what's behind it, how does he choose this thing, how does he select this subject then you find behind that a moral attitude a judgment."Albert Oehlen about Martin Kippenberger
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