Interview: Nicola L.
Tate Modern
September 2015
I didn’t use the term pop art in relation to my work in the 1960s – for me it was a great new movement only coming from England and America … As a student at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris, and later as a young artist, in the 1960s I felt kind of asphyxiated by the old School of Paris. Especially after my encounter with Alberto Greco, who had just returned from New York City where he had met Marcel Duchamp, when he asked me, ‘how can you paint in the 1960s?’ […]