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Anselm Kiefer interview. Plus, New York auction "gigaweek"

The Week in Art

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The Importance of Alchemy in Art

Alchemy is a permanent transformation of material. We're making a base material into here art rather than gold or they do use gold. And I see these works very much as being a part of that particularly your new vitreons are full of the kind of rubbish this new property that you've acquired being made into art. You cannot say to a painter why you use all this red and green and yellow it's there. I use material who has the spirit inside you know.I don't I'm not a platterist. It doesn't mean to make gold out of lead. But but it has it had nevertheless economic physical effect.

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