Július Koller (b. 1939, Slovakia – d. 2007)
Question Mark b. (Anti-Painting, Anti-Text), 1969

Tate Modern, London, UK / Visited 28/06/2018

Koller used question mark as a symbol of doubt, drawing it in “everyday” rather than in isolated art spaces.

This has multiple parallels to my practice. To start with, I am always in doubt, in a state of perpetual confusion. In particular, I tend to question things that are normalised and taken for granted in my environment. Thirdly, I don’t believe in a too tight separation of art and everyday.

Finally, I’ve just started exploring questions as an art form in itself.

PS. Koller’s UFO-thing is really witty… and I do think I am an alien, too…