Mark Grotjan—Untitled (Blue Painting Light to Dark VI) 2006

Q: One of the things I heard over and over again in your catalogue Q&A with Gary Garrels was how important being in front of actual art objects is for you, that being in the museum and around art is a real motivator for you.

Mark Grotjahn: Yeah. It’s like the difference between seeing people having sex and having it yourself. You can get an idea but it’s not the thing itself. With the image, No. 1: it’s the scale that you don’t have. Then you don’t get the detail or see how the paint was put down or see what the color actually looks like. So at a museum you actually get to see the thing, that is you get to experience it the way it was meant to be experienced. I mean, it’s great to see TV shows about nature, but it’s better to see a tiger in the wild.

—from Oranges & Sardines Q&A: Mark Grotjahn at Blouin Art Info

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