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This has never happened to me before:
A German (!) photographer asked me, threatening me of legal procedure, to remove one of my collages from 2014 because I had used his photo. This picture of a buffalo had been butchered by me with my cissors and my fingers and heavily modified resulting in a beast representing the compulsion to eat.
The question was if I was ready to fight against this German who imagines, I guess, that I exploit his picture for commercial reasons and go to court with the argument of fair use. Art cannot live without taking over from other artists. That's why I don't put any watermarks in my collages or photos. I am against copyrighting everything. My art is a degenerating art (Entartende Kunst), I take my material where I find it and don't think further. I am an artist, not a merchant or a lawyer. I am Buffalo Bill.
But after reflexion, I came to the decision to withdraw the collage from my website. Why ?
The collage itself is not essential in my work (largely over 5000 collages).
I don't want to bother with bullshit, I always say : « rien à foutre » (I don't give a damn), I want to make my collages and my photos, that's all. And this is bullshit : the photo itself means nothing to me, the (>:XXG)erman photographer even less. Furthermore I don't want to start a « querelle d'allemand » (a quarrel about nothing), I am done with Germany. Once is enough.
If I have to fight, I'll fight for one of my collages that expresses something more radical or violent in the style of Goya.
I replaced the butchered bull by a new collage which speaks about oppression and art – a creative way of responding I feel.
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