Jean-Jacques Lebel

Born with Paris, in 1936, Jean-Jacques Lebel are an artist plastics technician, writer, creator of artistic events. He is the son of Robert Lebel, art critic and friend of Marcel Duchamp, inter alia.

In 1955, its first exposure takes place in Galleria Numero with Florence, Italy. After a passage at the Surrealist ones, it exposes to Milan, at Arturo Schwarz, Iris Clert and Simone Collinet in Paris, then in innumerable museums and galleries throughout the world.

In 1960, Jean-Jacques Lebel is the author, with Venice, of the burial of the Thing , the first European Happening. In 1968, Jean-Jacques Lebel takes share with the activities of the “Movement of 22-March”, then “Black and red” anarchistic Group and with “working Information and correspondences”. He follows the teaching of the philosopher Gilles Deleuze to the Faculté of Vincennes.

He publishes the first critical French test on the movement of the happenings throughout the world. Starting from this date, it produces more than seventy happenings, performances and actions, on several continents, parallel to its pictorial, poetic and political activities. He works in Paris, London, New York or elsewhere with Oldenburg, Kaprow, Kudo, Erró, Carolee Schneemann, Yoko Ono, Daniel Pommereulle, Nam June Paik, Filliou, etc

In the Sixties, it translates into French and publishes William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gregory Corso.

In 1960, it takes the initiative of the " Large table antifascist collectif" (4 X 5 meters) painted by Baj, Dova, Crippa, Erro, Lebel and Antonio Recalcati, then exposed to the Anti-Lawsuit of Milan, in 1961.

In 1960 and 1961, it Co-organizes, in Paris, Venice, and Milan the Anti-Lawsuit , a demonstration and an international exhibition and itinerant gathering an about sixty artists of various tendencies, fascinating position against the war of Algeria and torture.

In 2001 and 2002: itinerant demonstration - the polymorphic and evolutionary installation, “Reliquary for a Venus worship”, made up of more than three thousand elements collected through Europe - proceeded with FRAC of Basse-Normandie with Caen, with the Casino of Luxembourg, CRÉDAC of Ivry, the Tamaris villa of the Seyne-sur-Mer (accompanied, on this occasion, of an about sixty works of the varied types. This exposure is presented in 2003 to the French Institute of Barcelona.

Random links: