"My uncle took me to the Venice Biennale in 1964 to see Pop Art and I came back with its images still in my mind… I think my work is influenced by my first contact with Pop Art and with a whole generation more American than European, and Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, in particular. I was massively struck by the idea that you could make art not only with brushes but with the most disparate objects or with scrap, as Chamberlain did. I couldn't grasp the finesse of a Jasper Johns back then but I was utterly fascinated by that performing art and I started cutting out, gluing and experimenting… I was hungry for everything, I wanted to try everything!"
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