Jiri Georg Dokoupil: Deichtorhallen.

Jiri Georg Dokoupil is a famous painter despite his insistence that he can't paint. In vain he once tried to paint like a proper Impressionist. After working at it for more than a year, he simply gave up. Even at that time, though, he already had a reputation as a painter. As part of the Cologne-based group Muhlheimer Freiheit--which at the beginning of the '80s took to the paintbrush in protest against rigid Minimalism and intellectual Conceptualism--he gained international renown. This was at a time when most progressive thinkers were of the opinion that painting was dead.

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