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Colin Lemoine: Supports/Surfaces consisted in thinking of the ‘pictorial fact’. I noted this programmatic quote, taken from the catalogue of an exhibition in 1969 in Le Havre, which is almost a manifesto: ‘The object of painting is painting itself and the pictures displayed relate only to themselves, whence the neutrality of the works presented, their absence of lyricism and expressive depth.’ Now, clearly, this somewhat morbid declaration of self-referentiality seems to me to contradict the expressive and voluptuous power of your sculpture, with your rejection of the neutrality of the place. …