sculptures honour various historical and culturalfigures. but how should society commemorate controversial people from the past? barbara chase riboud, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. we re sitting here at a major exhibition of your work called infinite folds, and you started your artistic training at the age of seven. how on earth did you know at that early age that you wanted to become an artist? i didn t know i wanted to be an artist. it was my mother and my grandmother who decided that i was going to have something to do with the arts. they weren t quite sure what. you were 16 and you were the youngest person to ever have a work acquired by moma, the museum of modern art in new york. it was reba, which was a woodcut print of a young girl with a plant next to her. and you have said that success as a child came easily to me, and that i grew up as a confident, curious child, not willing to settle for anything but the best. were you always very ambitious from an early age
controversial people from the past? barbara chase riboud, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. we re sitting here at a major exhibition of your work called infinite folds, and you started your artistic training at the age of seven. how on earth did you know at that early age that you wanted to become an artist? i didn t know i wanted to be an artist. it was my mother and my grandmother who decided that i was going to have something to do with the arts. they weren t quite sure what. you were 16 and you were the youngest person to ever have a work acquired by moma, the museum of modern art in new york. it was reba, which was a woodcut print of a young girl with a plant next to her. and you have said that success as a child came easily to me, and that i grew up as a confident, curious child, not willing to settle for anything but the best. were you always very ambitious from an early age? i wouldn t call it ambition. i didn t know what it was. i knew that i wanted to do somethin
memoir, i always knew. yes. so you ve published your memoir, i always knew, which is structured around 30 years of letters to your late beloved mother. you know, you ve been awarded the legion d honneur france s highest order of merit. what would your mother, vivian may, think if she could see the heights which you ve reached and the decorations you ve received? my mother had such a kind of wondrous attitude toward me. she often made jokes and said, i don t know where you came from, barbara, but i think they exchanged babies in the hospital! they chuckle i was very lucky to have lived a life of great
to your late beloved mother. you know, you ve been awarded the legion d honneur france s highest order of merit. what would your mother, vivian may, think if she could see the heights which you ve reached and the decorations you ve received? my mother had such a kind of wondrous attitude toward me. she often made jokes and said, i don t know where you came from, barbara, but i think they exchanged babies in the hospital! i was very lucky to have lived a life of great adventure without ever being wounded by my colour. now, this, i think this isjust dumb