Robert Filliou

Robert Filliou (Saves, 1926 - Eyzies de Tayac, 1987), Artiste " global" Poet, member of the movement Fluxus. Its work, funny and Humanistic, is inspired much philosophy Zen. He is the father of the “principle of equivalence” between the “made good”, the “made evil” and the “taken step”.

Art is what makes the life more interesting than art

Biography

In turn resistant, operation for the Company Coca-Cola in Los Angeles, graduate of economy to the the University of California to Los Angeles and civil servant of UNO in Korea, Robert Filliou works out a work ambitionnant to abolish the borders between art and the life. Starting from 1960, near to Daniel Spoerri, it develops an activity of poet, considering that the language and the words constitute material first of the artist.

In 1961, it shows with the gallery Addi Köpcke Copenhagen its first poems transcribed with the pastel on packing paper and interprets a poem of 53 kilos (published by the review Phantomas, Brussels, 1964).

The Poems in suspense, of the same period ( the Man is solitary , 1961), take part of the Poetic Principle of Economy, conceived by Filliou like a theory of the social implications of Article.

To this time also go back the Long poems to finish at home , as well as the poem action Kabou' inema , where the sound element is provided by the translation in Japanese of the names of some celebrities. This last will be carried out in public by Emmett Williams, Jean-Wolf Philippe and Robert Filliou itself.

In 1962, it meets George Brecht, Ben, Yves Klein, Assembles It Young, Bernard Heidsieck, with the demonstration organized by P. - has. Gette, in Konsthall de Lunds: Fluxus the Cedilla which smiles Total Art Poetry Action.

This same year, he interprets with Addi Köpcke, with the Poetic Field organized by Jean-Clarence Lambert, the poem action the Father Lachaise N° 1 .

Between 1965 and 1968, it opens with Villefranche-sur-Mer, in company of George Brecht, " The Cedilla which sourit" , a not-shop designed like an international center of permanent creation. Y were born from the ideas of films and visual poems, of routing of poems in low speed (imagined since 1961), and of Telefon-poems (with Dick Higgins).

In 1967, installed with Düsseldorf, where it joined Spoerri and Dieter Roth, it writes a book of teaching in collaboration with Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, John Cage and Allan Kaprow: Teaching and Learning ace performing Arts .

Thought like a play, its work is articulated around trios concepts - permanent creation, network eternal and permanent festival - which find a prolongation in the foundation of a brilliant Republic, for the development of the human genius, and Poïpoïdrome (1963) with Joachim Pfeufer.

Filliou belongs to this category of artists who, Roussel with Duchamp and Schwitters with Cage, consider their work like a work on the language, the words, the sounds, the images, in order to call in question the same bases of creation. Its workshop is visible with the Musée of modern art and contemporary of Strasbourg.

Aphorism

A sentence summarizes well the thought of Robert Filliou: " Art is what makes the life more interesting than the art."

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