Most of what I am as an artist derives from an early and energetic embrace of Marcel Duchamp. This includes his disdain for the word “artist”, and his several suspicions regarding “art” in general, although I do, nonetheless, use these words and use them as if I know what they mean. To me, art is just a facet of curiosity. Like its uptown cousin, science, it is simply one form of inquiry, a way of looking at things, asking questions and nosing around. Unlike science, whose conclusions are taken as fact, the conclusions of art—the objects themselves—are not answers; they are matters of opinion, inklings. Postcards home, nothing more.

Exhibition notes:
Item 069 - C7-7 on Booknesses: Artists' books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection.

UJ Art Gallery, University of Johannesburg

25 March to 5 May 2017

Ref: GB/6765