Lot 5

MATT MULLICAN, UNTITLED 90s

“I’m much more involved with the meaning of things and less with the form of things and that’s why many critics think I’m a surrealist, which is a fallacy. Conceptual art points to form and to the subject where form is the content; language is the content. But all of this is rational and much of my work is irrational because I believe the subject is irrational.”

Interview by Antonia Gaeta to Matt Mullican, in Revista Contemporânea, 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lot 6

FRANCISCO TROPA: “SCRIPTA”, 2010

“(…) The most correct way of not classifying something, even when there is a repetition of gestures, is that it is always an answer and not an a priori.”

Excerpts from a conversation on January 8th, 2003 (text by Diogo Lopes), in Revista Pangloss, 2003