A.R. Penck
‘This is a big word, violence, but for art (and in particular painting and sculpture) to continue to exist in the brave new world of explosive electronic imagery, such aggression is necessary, in content and manufacture….The behaviour of Penck’s art is certainly brash and boisterous and aggressive. That is why, somehow, he has been one of our great tough and unconventional contemporaries who, just by being there, has paved the way for some of our younger ones such as Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel’. (Rudi Fuchs in, 1973
