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every work of art has a
beginning and every work of art is never
really ever done or over or
solidified and one could say that a
beginning is is uh has the shape of an
idea and sometimes an idea is actually
later before an idea you might have
something which you could
call um Intuition or instinct or maybe
it's better to say it's a
felt something felt
um a felt meaning right so so it's
somehow it's
meaningful but it has no words see this
is I think incredibly important to kind
of celebrate that where where does idea
comes from and what is that space what
is it like out of which things
grow and we and I think we should
treasure it right it's like a it's a
like a treasure room it's like the most
amazing room because it is where your
your
subconsciousness speak with some comfort
otherwise we always keep we so busy
keeping it down like controlling
ourselves so here it's like a resource
right and I think it's it's also
important to see a intuition is
never kind of a sort of a moment it's
always a flow it's beautiful it's like a
little poem of some something which has
has not yet come to
verbalization and sometimes I
can
amplify an idea by adding words to it
but sometimes adding words or
verbalizing an idea is actually
counterproductive or just brings in the
pragmatism of having to explain it which
very often introduces the the
justification if you can't explain it is
probably not a good idea so sometimes I
just make a model and I do it with my
team in my studio in in Berlin where I
have a a lot of really talented people
so all these models are either made by
me in collaboration or a lot of them is
actually not made made by me a lot of
them is made by a mathematician called
AA Torin who worked for me many many
years so um so it's very important that
this table in is in in a way is about
celebrating the the kind of area around
where things start right the ideas or
the the kind of the playfulness of trust
in where does things come from and
obviously what is important is the
distance
between you where did it start and where
did it if not end where did it go and I
think this is interesting because it's
also about art it's about the
relationship between thinking and doing
and these are the first steps in doing
right so you have an idea and it's very
important to say that having an idea
about a work of art about a great work
of art is not at all necessarily the
same as a great work of art right even
though I one would like to think so so
so very often it actually proves very
quickly by making a quick model you can
see oh my God no it was not a good work
of art after all it was actually quite
the contrary it was a it was a funny
model but for sure it won't be a work of
heart
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so these
are speciaal sketches I would normally
say these are small spatial experiments
in that process of taking taking the
steps from thinking to doing right you
make a sketch a bigger model there is
also you know the digital models in the
computers which are not here right so
there's a ping pong digital in in the
computer outside making things with the
hands in that process there's many steps
materials color scale physicality body
should I be able to walk in is it small
or is it
big um all these
choices people sometimes ask me whe
whether these are what is called
creative
choices know like this or like that and
I actually don't think so they're very
pragmatic right it of course has to do
with the feeling the intuition the the
ver the verbalization the the theory
that is behind it but to work in that
process is not per definition creative
what creativity is which I think is also
important here is the
consequences the choice
has on the world right so it's very
interesting the creativity is what came
before and what came after so when one
does something painting for instance red
or blue it's not really creative to
choose red or blue I mean it's maybe
irrational or it's maybe you know
emotional or whatever but for me
creativity is the consequences it has on
something else right so con so
creativity is for me about causality
it's about friction
you know um it's about
change it's about breaking the rules
it's about uh making rules so um for me
this is very much about that it's very
much about suggesting well these are all
things that makes reference to things
that were not or that are not here these
are clearly things which are about
things that are somewhere else and it is
this about somewhere that makes this
creative for me it's funny I never
thought of this as a
self-portrait I guess you could call it
some kind of psychogram of
um well it really makes more reference
to a certain working process and um and
I would like to see that there is a lot
of other things in me but maybe there's
not maybe this is how I sort of look on
the inside
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