«I think that when we look at art, one of the things we want to do is to attribute meanings. We try to uncover what it is that the artist is trying to do in this or that thing. This is a mode of transaction which at its simplest is to do with a certain kind of recognition—we recognize that something resembles something else.»
Quellenangabe:An Interview with Richard Deacon by Ian Tromp
«The question for me is whether resemblance can be detached from objects. That quote about the drawings has to do with trying to work out whether the conjunctions of resemblance, looking like, reminding of, referring to, are simple associative categories or whether they refer to something else.»
Quellenangabe:An Interview with Richard Deacon by Ian Tromp
«It was that ability to evoke those kinds of responses—looking like, resemblance, and so on—which I had been trying to create. It requires a certain level of ambiguity, a certain level of giving and taking away at the same time. That’s the kind of thing that I was interested in.»
Quellenangabe:An Interview with Richard Deacon by Ian Tromp
«I’m interested in the fact that there is a continuity between the world and materials, that the material is of the world but also sustains an imaginative response, so that it points in two directions at once. I’m not less interested in the imaginative response than I am in the material, it’s just that sometimes it’s harder to say precisely what the nature of that imaginative response is.»
Quellenangabe:An Interview with Richard Deacon by Ian Tromp
«Color is an element of that, but tone and intensity, dark and light, shine, shadow, transparency, translucency, opacity—those are all things that I think are present in quite a lot of the works. They respond to light quite particularly, and that’s very intuitive.»
Quellenangabe:An Interview with Richard Deacon by Ian Tromp
