Yannick Demmerle
Yeah, I’m young, fit, but also handsome, brilliant and virile. Do we really need to be nice?
Yannick has been artist in residence in our library. He’s arrested us with his energy and intensity. There’s no self-effacing irony for Yannick; no false artistic modesty: when he makes art, he means it.
It takes blowing off everything for your artwork ... the family, money, security, happiness, friends. Are you ready to do that for yours, darling?
During his time at Mona he’s made a series of large works on paper, a new direction in his practice about which he is tremendously excited.
Curated by Olivier Varenne
Header Image: Untitled #8 (detail), 2012, Yannick Demmerle
Pencil on paper
When:
19 September 2012–11 March 2013
Location:
‘As I told ya, I got nothing intelligent to say about the work (and the less I’ll talk about it, the more fascinating, mysterious, weird and fucked up it’ll be!! And that’s how I want it to fly).
As Eugen Schönebeck says: “I favour the art of not thinking”.
(And please don’t be shy with me!)’
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As Eugen Schönebeck says: “I favour the art of not thinking”.
(And please don’t be shy with me!)’
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