MICHAEL KREBBER

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Maureen Paley is pleased to announce a solo presentation of new work by Michael Krebber. This will be his fourth exhibition at the gallery. Would you confirm that ‘painting' is used / explored by you as a filter? Might that question ask about a possible program of 'painting'? Its application? In that case: painting, as well as any other activity, runs as an application that regularly and constantly changes, from for one person communicating with himself, to 2 people or more. Like society, here the programs runs wild, everyone might be in a different program, either actively or passively, and this is why I called this exhibition The ridiculized snails. Is ‘painting' still seen as a controversial activity? Jack Smith said that buying and possessing art was wrong, it was against the idea of art. Here lies the contradiction. But painting is also qualified as an image of the enemy, it therefore can easily seem to be used as a controversial activity. This became kind of common knowledge for the ‘knowing ones' and I think I benefit a bit from that. And it is still an open game.Please read my text Puberty in Painting".