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"Polke seems indeed to have taken note of certain cult and ritual aspects of modern art in the making of his lacquer pictures, as if they had come waiting by in the process so that he simply could not resist calling out to them 'As you like it! You want transparency? Light? Are you interested in the tension between illusion and physical presence? Transcendence in particular and transcendence in general?" (B. Curiger, in 'Parkett', no. 40/41, 1994 p.131.)