ROBERT FILLIOU (FRA-USA / 1926-1987) Art... - Lot 60 - FW Auction

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ROBERT FILLIOU (FRA-USA / 1926-1987) Art... - Lot 60 - FW Auction
ROBERT FILLIOU (FRA-USA / 1926-1987) Art is what makes life more important than art, 1996 Silkscreen by Alain Buyse poster n°0_ 53 x 38 cm. "It was Bernard Guerbadot, an artist friend of mine, who told me about this phrase by Robert Filliou: "Art is what makes life more important than art". I found Marianne Filliou's contact details who authorized me to use the sentence. However, I didn't want to give her a number in the series, as if Filliou was still alive and would have designed this text as a poster for me. Hence his N°0, which comes as a prefiguration of the collection. "Alain Buyse By the way, what's the point of art? A question that we have all asked ourselves and which we will have difficulty answering. Robert Filliou tries this exercise and with this now famous sentence tries to show that art is not separated from life, and that thanks to it our daily life can be embellished. It is also an invitation to see further than himself, art is not an end in itself, it is a gateway to many other things. Robert Filliou was born in Sauve in the Gard in 1926 and died in 1987 in Les Eyzies-de-Tayac (Dordogne). A great traveller and free thinker, he was very close to the Fluxus movement. Marrying first of all in agreement with the communist ideology, he will end up detaching himself from it for the precepts of non-violence of the Buddhist thought. In 1982, he took part alongside Jospeh Beuys in a meeting with the Dalai Lama. SOLD BY DESIGNATION
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