... The Breughelian excess is evaded, avoided and suppressed, until it all explodes, as in the recent videoworks Waterloo Forever! and the hilarious, hallucinatory, haunting and dramatic The Final Countdown, in which we see half the world yearning at a frightening, painful, mindless, but enthusiastic kind of pathos that seems inextricably linked with the illusory mastering of an art form…

Hans Theys – ‘Over lelijkheid en denken met beelden’
‘Over Vorm’ - Tornado Editions 2010

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