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Abstraction is immanent to the principle of painting anyway. Through the reduction to two-dimensionality and the illusion of color, there is already an extreme separation of painting and the depicted reality. If one takes these steps consistently further, one increasingly distances oneself from any form of depiction. Just as every painting is abstract, every painting follows a conception. And also there, if one goes this way consistently further, one comes over the abstract expressionism, to the conceptual painting of the 60s and 70s up to the Radical Painting of the 80s.
Now, figuration seems …