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Robert Filliou (1926-1987)

  • - Robert Filliou , b. 1926 Principe d'équivalence, création permanente - Red Sock in Yellow Box I, II, III wood, woollen socks, felt, metal hooks, stamped paper, drawing pins and emulsion paint, in three parts

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  • - Robert Filliou , b. 1926 Object for Measuring Art Works pencil, wood block, wire, nails and wooden ruler mounted on plywood

Robert Filliou Biography

(b Sauve, Gard, 17 Jan 1926; d les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, nr Périgueux, 2 Dec 1987). French performance artist, conceptual artist and writer. He studied economics and science at the University of California at Los Angeles from 1948 to 1951, but he was self-taught as an artist. Having first worked as a playwright during the second half of the 1950s, in 1960 he presented the first of his performances incorporating poetry. By 1962 he was involved with the FLUXUS movement; sharing his fellow artists’ distaste for marketable art objects, he not only continued to create performances and other ephemeral works but also involved himself in conceptual gestures such as the foundation of a ‘République Géniale’. He made films and videos, sent enigmatic objects through the post as a form of correspondence art and worked against traditional ideas about the individuality of the artist by working collaboratively with others: in 1964 he and Joachim Pfeufer created the Poïpoïdrome, a group researching ‘permanent creation’ and the ‘principle of equivalence’, and in 1965 he and George Brecht founded La Cédille Qui Sourit (a shop and studio) at Villefranche-sur-Mer. While he worked in a variety of media, the form taken by any work was the one deemed most appropriate in embodying a particular idea. One of his major works, for instance, is a huge painting, Research into the Origin (3*90 m, 1974; Lyon, Mus. St Pierre A. Contemp.), which carries, in handwritten script with notes and cross-references, a multitude of references and citations from scientific studies demonstrating the necessity of ‘permanent creation’.

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