François Curlet
29 Apr - 29 May 2010
© Francois Curlet
Intuitive Galerie, 2010
plexiglass hat, 'Brain' by Katarina Fritsch, poster by M/M (Paris), detail
Noise has found its horse of Troy, the well-known headphones.
Real pastry bags to fill up the eardrums with decibels in the skull:
a fragile waffle that crackles with a twist of the volume dial. F.C.
Intuitive Galerie, 2010
plexiglass hat, 'Brain' by Katarina Fritsch, poster by M/M (Paris), detail
Noise has found its horse of Troy, the well-known headphones.
Real pastry bags to fill up the eardrums with decibels in the skull:
a fragile waffle that crackles with a twist of the volume dial. F.C.
FRANCOIS CURLET
"Intuitive Galerie Légitime"
29 April - 29 May 2010
François Curlet proposes a new gallery within the gallery: "Intuitive Galerie Légitime". He uses the "Galerie Légitime" by Robert Filliou in which works of art by different artists are covered by a Plexiglas hat and uses a plaster brain by Katarina Fritsch for his own "Intuitive Gallery". In the exhibition 2 posters are also shown: one published in 1968 by "Mayer Editions" for the exhibition of Robert Filliou that showed 6 versions in different colors of the "Galerie Légitime". The second poster is by M/M (Paris) and is part of François Curlet’s "Galerie Intuitive" (2010).
François Curlet is interested in Filliou’s principle of liberty, who wanted his "Galerie Légitime" to be a working gallery. François Curlet decided to replay this principle by creating an "Intuitive Gallery". The choice of the plaster brain by Katarina Fritsch is a play on Robert Filliou’s idea of wearing a hat that contains works of art on his head/brain where after all everything is anyway.
From a letter to Peggy Gale, September 1982
... in 1968, I had 6 or 7 plastic hats made, baptized them also Galerie Légitime (I now keep in the one of them I still have versions of the original "Galeries Légitime"), to suggest visually, as exhibited at Hans Jorg Mayer's Gallery, gallery within gallery within gallery within gallery up to, say Louvre under a hat, as in above photo, the Eiffel Tower, l'Arc de Triomphe, l'Obélisque...
"G" from the videotape Portafilliou, 1977
This stamp I used, I think was in 1961. At the time I had the idea to have a gallery, to open my own gallery. I opened a gallery called Galerie Légitime in my cap. I had a stamp made, that said Galerie Légitime couvre chef d'oeuvre. It's something in French that has a double meaning this sentence, couvre chef d'oeuvre. It means two things: it covers up a masterpiece, that is it covers up the head, it covers up the brain, (it's all in the brain anyway). It means also, covering up works, couvre chef - hat, over works - couvre chef d'oeuvre.
So in my cap, the same as the one I'm wearing now, inside my cap, on top of my head, I had small works of mine. At that time I used to make things, where I measured up things, or I mummified them.
Then in the streets of Paris, I would walk through the streets and I would come up to somebody walking in the street, and a typical dialogue might be, "Are you interested in art, monsieur, or madame, or mademoiselle?" and if they said, "Yes, yes,” I would say: "Well do you know I have a gallery?" If they express some interest, I would say "Here it is.
There inside my hat were the works. They were a little bit bigger than this grape, you see, or this stamp. And then we would look at the works. Robert Filliou
"Intuitive Galerie Légitime"
29 April - 29 May 2010
François Curlet proposes a new gallery within the gallery: "Intuitive Galerie Légitime". He uses the "Galerie Légitime" by Robert Filliou in which works of art by different artists are covered by a Plexiglas hat and uses a plaster brain by Katarina Fritsch for his own "Intuitive Gallery". In the exhibition 2 posters are also shown: one published in 1968 by "Mayer Editions" for the exhibition of Robert Filliou that showed 6 versions in different colors of the "Galerie Légitime". The second poster is by M/M (Paris) and is part of François Curlet’s "Galerie Intuitive" (2010).
François Curlet is interested in Filliou’s principle of liberty, who wanted his "Galerie Légitime" to be a working gallery. François Curlet decided to replay this principle by creating an "Intuitive Gallery". The choice of the plaster brain by Katarina Fritsch is a play on Robert Filliou’s idea of wearing a hat that contains works of art on his head/brain where after all everything is anyway.
From a letter to Peggy Gale, September 1982
... in 1968, I had 6 or 7 plastic hats made, baptized them also Galerie Légitime (I now keep in the one of them I still have versions of the original "Galeries Légitime"), to suggest visually, as exhibited at Hans Jorg Mayer's Gallery, gallery within gallery within gallery within gallery up to, say Louvre under a hat, as in above photo, the Eiffel Tower, l'Arc de Triomphe, l'Obélisque...
"G" from the videotape Portafilliou, 1977
This stamp I used, I think was in 1961. At the time I had the idea to have a gallery, to open my own gallery. I opened a gallery called Galerie Légitime in my cap. I had a stamp made, that said Galerie Légitime couvre chef d'oeuvre. It's something in French that has a double meaning this sentence, couvre chef d'oeuvre. It means two things: it covers up a masterpiece, that is it covers up the head, it covers up the brain, (it's all in the brain anyway). It means also, covering up works, couvre chef - hat, over works - couvre chef d'oeuvre.
So in my cap, the same as the one I'm wearing now, inside my cap, on top of my head, I had small works of mine. At that time I used to make things, where I measured up things, or I mummified them.
Then in the streets of Paris, I would walk through the streets and I would come up to somebody walking in the street, and a typical dialogue might be, "Are you interested in art, monsieur, or madame, or mademoiselle?" and if they said, "Yes, yes,” I would say: "Well do you know I have a gallery?" If they express some interest, I would say "Here it is.
There inside my hat were the works. They were a little bit bigger than this grape, you see, or this stamp. And then we would look at the works. Robert Filliou