We wondered how they would grow up, perhaps what kind of artists they might become: certainly cleaner than my generation. A real contrast to the 1960s, when I was in my twenties, and probably more so to the 70s, with children glued to the television in their rooms. But it was a time of really essential living. Many of the houses and buildings were bombed out, and as children we played in ruins or dirt rather than on the grass. I grew up in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, and it could only be described as a time of darkness. What was your experience growing up in Vienna? This interview took place in the artist’s studio in Vienna on 13 November 2007, prior to his retrospective that toured the United States in 2008–9… We knew that one of the true greats had passed. We knew Franz was sick, as he had been for some years, but somehow he always came back: to create new works as fresh as any young artist today, to generously collaborate, to win the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion in 2011, to laugh and leave us wanting more. When Franz West died on 25 July 2012, age sixty-five, many in the artworld gulped. It is now republished here, to coincide with a major retrospective of his work at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, on through 10 December. Eccles kicked off the series by republishing a 2007 interview with Austrian artist Franz West, a few months after the artist’s death. Editor’s note: ‘Other People and Their Ideas’ was a series of interviews led by Tom Eccles, executive director at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard, with personalities form the artworld (including critic Jerry Saltz, curator Ruba Katrib, gallerist Gavin Brown, and many more).
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