A Performance Artist Who Performed as a Painter to Deliver an Object Which Was to Perform as a Painting: Michel Majerus
Cory Arcangel, Jordan Wolfson, and Bart van der Heide in Conversation
“The legacy of Michel Majerus (b. 1967; d. 2002) is a complex and multifaceted one. Having worked at the turn of the millennium, right when the world was about to drastically reshape, Majerus’s figure is emblematic of a voracious appetite for the new and the cool that he neatly and flat-out embedded in his works, stretching painting tradition’s entrenched dos and don’ts.”