"Art should be cheap and part of everyday life"

"The Berlin artist Jim Avignon is showing 700 pictures which he painted in the course of one month under the ironic title 'Get rich with art'. 'I want people to relate to art in a way that's different from usual,' Avignon says about the idea behind his exhibition. The party atmosphere is intended to dispel any sense of distance from art, which for him is a ware like any other, which you can get hold of, take away with you and dispose of as you wish. 'For me an art work is like a record that you buy, listen to for a while and then maybe put away on the shelf,' he says. 'Art should be cheap and part of everyday life, not prohibitively expensive, like in the established art business, where it's very remote from the onlooker'."

FAZ Frankfurt





"Aspects of socio-cultural environment"

"The overall impression created by this apparently spartan crafting of individual pictures captivates through its richness: Avignon analyses aspects of the socio-cultural environment and in doing so transforms them radically. Various facets of youth culture, already attractive on an iconic level, are shown in this way to possess striking qualities ... The density of detail and speed of production recall hip-hop and breakbeat."

Spex