COLLECTION 2 - AVANT-GARDE

KALTBLUT
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KALTBLUT:Your images are always “simple”
and basic and you always accompany everything
with some text. How important is the
text for the image to work?
What’s the relationship between those two?
MARC:Sometimes a drawing starts with a word,
sometimes it’s an image. And sometimes the
image is quite simple, nothing unusual, but it
was something that I was in the mood to
draw. Then I make up a little story that
changes the context of it, or I make
the object speak. I love the way a few
words can change everything.You can
do so much with just a bit of text and
a simple drawing. I don’t think I’ll ever
get tired of exploring the possibilities.
KALTBLUT:You believe that finding
the humour in something can lead
to finding the truth in it. It’s so
true most of the times!
Can you go a bit into that?
MARC:If something is funny, there’s
usually some truth to it. I look to find
humour in things, but I try to keep it a
bit subtle, rather than deliver a punchline.
I prefer dry humour, or humour delivered
in a reserved fashion. I’d rather not have
to spell it out.
KALTBLUT:I get the feeling you are very
much into DIY. Am I right? What advantages
do you see in it?
MARC:I’m a bit uncomfortable with the term
DIY, because it’s been so overused. But for
me DIY is about making it up as you go along.
Art is, by its very nature, DIY. I feel like the socalled
‘real world’ is not terribly enticing, and
often doesn’t really make sense, so I’m making
my own version, with my own rules. Rules like:
art can be funny; nothing makes sense; art
can take 10 hours to make or 10 minutes to
make, but either one can be good; just because
everyone else is doing something a certain way
doesn’t mean you should; scribbles are beautiful;
being true is better than a million dollars of
marketing; don’t make assumptions about what
people will think; and so on.