"Is it possible for a single person to actually represent a whole country? The Austrian pavillion curator Zdenka Badovinac, found a creative response to this question by selecting an impossible artist named Georg P. Thomann [and some friends of him], a complete invention faked by the Austrian monochrom group. Through the implementation of this ironic mechanism - even the catalogue includes the biography of the non-existent artist - both the curator and the group solved with pure fiction the philosophical and bureaucratic dilemma usually attached to the system of representation. (And fiction always is, I definitely believe, the best strategy art can employ.)"
(Eva Grinstein in "Flash Art", Mai/Juni 2002)

"Schließlich weiß ja fast jeder in Wien, dass es mich gibt. Wer es nicht glaubt, soll nächste Woche am Donnerstag um 14 Uhr ins Eisenbahn-Café (Opernplatz 14) kommen, dort werde ich unter notarieller Aufsicht eine Palatschinke essen und die Kronenzeitung lesen, was als Beweis ja genügen sollte, dass ich existiere."
(G. P. Thomann, Sommer 1994)