"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
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