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Lot Essay
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‘Paintings age as objects, not just as an image or a surface. I try to be insistent on focusing on or at least suggesting that you spend a long amount of time with the object. Maybe that’ll give you time to think about other things, such as why you even find yourself in that space to pay attention. I can’t tell when things start or stop, everything has a thick, blurry line. I took painting as a given, something that looked natural to its environment, because I grew up going to museums that had paintings in them. I chose to practice in something that seemed like it was already supposed to be there. I didn’t want to have a whole lot of say in the image; I just wanted the painting to exist as a thing itself so that I’d have freedom to move it around space and suggest things outside of the object’ (J. Kassay, quoted in M. Lyons, ‘Jacob Kassay in Interview’, in Flash Art, no. 284, May-June 2012).
‘Paintings age as objects, not just as an image or a surface. I try to be insistent on focusing on or at least suggesting that you spend a long amount of time with the object. Maybe that’ll give you time to think about other things, such as why you even find yourself in that space to pay attention. I can’t tell when things start or stop, everything has a thick, blurry line. I took painting as a given, something that looked natural to its environment, because I grew up going to museums that had paintings in them. I chose to practice in something that seemed like it was already supposed to be there. I didn’t want to have a whole lot of say in the image; I just wanted the painting to exist as a thing itself so that I’d have freedom to move it around space and suggest things outside of the object’ (J. Kassay, quoted in M. Lyons, ‘Jacob Kassay in Interview’, in Flash Art, no. 284, May-June 2012).