"I can work incredibly fast"

"Whenever he's successful, Jim Avignon moves on. And so he's always on the move. The message of his pictures and installations: anything flows. (...) Instead of meditating for hours about a brushstroke Jim Avignon thinks and produces quickly and on a large scale. 'I can work incredibly fast and it's no bother for me to paint for 18 hours a day.' Also the fact that he has no trouble in bidding farewell to his products, which he would rather destroy than see buried alive in some gallery, is ultimately a direct attack on the notion of the immortality of art. Especially since he has no qualms about letting people make use of his works as they wish."

Prinz





"Art which doesn't sit around on its arse in museums"

"The renowned pop artist Claes Oldenburg once said very tellingly: 'I'm in favour of a kind of art which doesn't sit around on its arse in museums'. No offence, Claes, but that's exactly where your falling omelettes and unironed shirts made of papier-mâché can be found today! Avignon's works, on the other hand, will never end up there - for the simple reason that after this two-week-long spectacle they probably won't exist any longer."

TAZ