Johannes Grenzfurthner

“ We wanted to set an example that artists do not necessarily have to internalize the fragmentation and isolation that is being imposed upon them by the structure of the art market, the exhibition business, as well as the economy containing them. For us, though, this is not about taking a stand for either the westernized-economical imperialism represented by Taiwan or for China's old-school Stalinist imperialism. ”

“ Georg Paul Thomann died on July 21, 2005 when he got involved in an accident and tried to help a person on the Inntal Highway near the small Austrian city of Hall in the province of Tirol. He was buried in that same village on July 26th, by chance not far from a psychiatric hospital. His marble gravestone is the first worldwide with an engraved URL.
Finally he could cease to not exist, a fine opportunity to kill an Uebervater who in a sense was our son-but hey, this is Freud's country of origin, after all. ”

“ His installation project is an oversized mixed-media self-portrait in the shape of Austria's highest mountain, and Thomann invited four young Austrian art groups to present their work to the world. Thomann not only is the Uebervater of all Austrian avant-gardes, no: he virtually becomes the commissioner of tourism for the location factor 'young art'. The four art groups are - of course - fake, too. ”