I try to make a new kind of monument. A precarious monument. A monument for a limited time. I make monuments for philosophers because they have something to say today. Philosophers can give the courage to think, the pleasure to reflect. I like the strong sense in...
An altar is a personal, artistic commitment. I want to fix my heroes. The altars want to give memory of someone who is dead and who was loved by somebody else. It is important to testify ones’ love, ones’ attachment. The heroes can’t change, but the altars’ location...
Aubervilliers 26.06.2003 Dear Pamela, I will try to respond to your seven questions about Politics, Grapus, & Philosophy I left Grapus after a half day’s work. I recognized that the group was a hierarchic organization. I couldn’t accept to do what others told me...
« Direct Sculptures » are models of monuments. « Direct sculpture » is a critic of the monument. My critic of the « monument » comes from the fact that the idea of the monument is imposed from above. A monument is determined, produced and situated by decisions from...
This « Kunst am Bau Projekt » was intended for the new building for the brain research and molecular-biology research department of the University of Zürich. The work is a « work in progress » made for the entrance hall of this department. This hall is a public space...
