12 January - 17 February 2007
35 Heddon Street, London W1
‘There is an affinity between what bebop musicians did when working with standards and my work: I’ve never hidden the fact that it can depend a lot on precedence and improvising off of some text. It’s not particularly original, a lot of writers do the same thing.
Bebop is one of those instances where it was open to more exposure; rap would be the same situation: you have actual samples around here… I guess nowadays to sample anyone without their permission is risky. I’m open to anything potentially, and there’s more of a collage or editing nature to my work. That doesn’t make such work derivative or less individual. I would argue the counter.’
Raymond Pettibon in interview with Gerald Matt and Thomas Miegang, Raymond Pettibon (Kunsthalle Wien / Verlag fur moderne Kunst Nurnberg, 2006), p 14/15.