Purple Magazine
— F/W 2016 issue 26
David Horvitz
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I imagine I’m a small fish
artist, Los Angeles
artist series by MAURIZIO CATTELAN
in collaboration with MARTA PAPINI
portrait by DANIEL TRESE
MAURIZIO CATTELAN — Why do you do what you do?
DAVID HORVITZ — I’ve spent about three weeks looking at this question every day, and I still don’t have an answer. I don’t know.
MAURIZIO CATTELAN — If you weren’t an artist, what would you be?
DAVID HORVITZ — A gardener. Or maybe a dolphin.
MAURIZIO CATTELAN — Isn’t your work more a caption for the world than an image?
DAVID HORVITZ — Yes.
The Distance of a Day, 2013, digital video, 12 minutes, courtesy of the artist and Chert, Berlin
MAURIZIO CATTELAN — Are your pieces intended to be chronicles of reality?
DAVID HORVITZ — They are chronicles of reality, or chronicles of the imagination. Is the imagination inside…