Robert Filliou

This edition is an exact facsimile of Teaching and Learning as Performing Arts by Robert Filliou (1926-1987), first published in 1970 and long out-of-print. A “work in continuous progress”, as Filliou called it, Teaching and Learning remains an essential primer on the artist’s still radical ideas on participatory art making and teaching. The book preserves the original’s highly inventive layout and idiosyncratic composition, with extensive writings by Filliou and interviews with many of his artist friends, including Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, John Cage, Dorothy Iannone, Allan Kaprow and Dieter Rot.… (más)

Robert Filliou believed in creativity rather than art, and saw himself as a creator of ‘anti-objects’. His hands-on, nomadic, deceptive works made from many different materials reflect Filliou’s idea of art as a game, but a serious one. His participation in the French resistance, his studies in Political Economy and his interest in Buddhism were channelled into his Principle of Poetic Economy. And his desire to de-institutionalise art was expressed through his Galerie Légitime, an itinerant gallery concealed inside a hat that displayed his own works and those of other artists. This catalogue includes essays by Sylvie Jouval, Jean-Hubert Martin, Heike Van Den Valentyn, Michel Mollet and Jean-Clarence Lambert, as well as a bibliography compiled by Jürgen H. Meyer and a timeline devised by Michel Giroud.… (más)

First edition, one of 500 sets printed and now scarce, with only two recorded at auction. Filliou's text on the folder states that the postcards were issued in memory of Danish artist Arthur "Addi" Kopke (1928-1977), at whose gallery these poems were originally exhibited during his 1961 residence in Copenhagen with his wife Marianne. These postcard poems were intentionally incomplete, to be completed at home by the recipients: "It's much less important to express myself than to induce others to express themselves. So I would start a poem in such a way that they could finish it themselves." 16 postcard poems printed in various colours, housed in a grey card folder printed in blue.… (más)