Deutsches Historisches Museum - Verf�hrung Freiheit. Kunst in Europa seit 1945 - Blog

More often than not, when people become really enthusiastic about something and they make it their passion and pursue this passion professionally, they can remember one moment in which all of that became clear to them.

For Alexios this moment was when he encountered Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’ on the cover of a book. He was twelve or thirteen at the moment and remembers that that was the moment in which he decided he wanted to be in the arts professionally. As a professional viewer. For him ‘it was a funny coincidence that Duchamp’s last work was Étant donnés: 1 la chute d'eau / 2 le gaz d'éclairage’ - a work on viewing and voyeurism.