This interview was previously published in Revista Arta / Arta Magazine, no. 18/ 2016 under the title CLEARNESS MEANS HONESTY François Dey, To Do This Week, 2011, G alerie van Gelder Bogdan Teodorescu: Are you in good shape for the interview? François Dey: Yeah, just got out of the swimming pool, it always gives me total power! BT: First, do you believe in success? FD: I guess I do somehow, but I try to shift it into a more personal form of success, like enlightenment for example. This is real success. But likewise it would be interesting to see how what I found to be mine I can offer to others, bringing them something, which is very difficult to measure. It’s a matter of exchange. That’s similar with the limitations of a medium; a painting in a room for example, makes me feel it’s not enough. I often feel I want to interact and perform by acting directly on something. Speaking about success, it’s funny how artists, or at least some of them, see...
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