Robert Filliou : The Secret of Permanent Creation. - Kreuger, Anders; Lebeer, Irmeline (Antwerpen : M HKA, 2016)
In the coming years, M HKA will dedicate a series of exhibitions to key figures of experimental art in the second half of the twentieth century, all of them also important presences in Antwerp in the 1960s and ’70s. We begin with the French poet, playwright, artist and thinker Robert Filliou (1926–1987). This autumn, we mount the first comprehensive survey of his visual oeuvre in Belgium, with more than 100 original works and multiples from public and private collections across Europe. More radical, more fundamentally provocative, but also subtler and gentler than most of his contemporaries and peers, Filliou should be a household name for a large audience. With this exhibition we want to show today’s and tomorrow’s viewers that Filliou is not just one of the most influential artists of the recent past. He is a voice for our time, speaking of the political and poetic economy, of curiosity and research as more than ‘a privilege for those who already know’, of conviviality and play but also of loneliness as a productive and even desirable state.(from webside M HKA)
Robert Filliou, The Secret of Permanent Creation, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst M HKA, Antwerpen, 13 october 2016 - 22 january 2017
Gift Helena De Preester
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Keywords: Filliou, Robert