Reducing Thirty-Five Years’ Work to a Single Sentence (1987)

I have been asked to reduce thirty-five years of work to a single sentence, reflecting my unique, complex, elusive “self” (like all the “selves” in the world, of course).

So here it is, that sentence, grotesque, mangling, minuscule and yet already much too long to ever be put to use in a dictionary or on a radio quiz show:

Morellet, monstrous progeny of Mondrian and Picabia, has developed, since 1952, an entire program of systems as rigorous as they are absurd, using the simplest geometric figures (straight lines, angles, planes…) with the most diverse materials (canvases, wire mesch, neon, steel, adhesives, branches…) on all manner supports (canvases, walls, statues, architecture, “landscapes”…).