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Questions


Ben Vautier


"Qui vous dit qu'il n'est
pas beau ce tableau?" – 1961


"C'est beau
n'est-ce pas?"


"Est-ce bien de l'art?" – 2005



Mario Merz

"Che fare?"

1968




Jenny Holzer


     

  


"What urge will save us
now that sex won't?"

1983, 1985

"When you place your hand on the Bible,
do you think about eternal questions:
why are we here instead of nothing?"

2004


Barbara Kruger

Untitled

1991


Look for the moment when pride becomes contempt.
Who is free to choose? Who is beyond the law?
Who is healed? Who is housed?
Who speaks? Who is silenced?
Who salutes longest? Who prays loudest?
Who dies first? Who laughs last?