THE TRUTH

27/09/-12/11/2000

(curator OF THE EXPO: BEN)

 

HORS LIEUX

 

Present on September 27 to the Gallery

HORS LIEUX

STRASBOURG

PHOTOS

after the shows and openings " dinosauriens " of this year the BEAUTY in Avignon EXOTICISM in LYON the opening of Tate and the FEELING in London, etc one smells a little everywhere and especially in the creators a need for TRUTH. These large expos déboussolent.
It would be said that for the year the 2000 powers compete in culture.
Risk-you one not a generalized cultural indigestion?
Then I thought organized a expo around the theme of the truth

The EXPO the TRUTH wonders whether Arthur Cravan made well tell " Seuls the morons see the beautiful one in the beautiful things. "
The EXPO the TRUTH seeks to give a progress report on the contemporary art.
The EXPO the TRUTH believes that the TRUTH in art is a quite large abscess, difficult to burst
The EXPO the TRUTH believes that the TRUTH for the artist is to recognize his ego which makes it suffer like said it Jacques Charlier
The EXPO the TRUTH makes us recognize perhaps that our large fathers Picabia, Duchamp, John Cage and Zen did not swindle us in the flour but have us foutus in the shit
The EXPO the TRUTH seeks to know if art is the worship of the error or a lie.
The EXPO the TRUTH implies that the beauty is to give pleasure and that the truth is to wonder why one wants to give pleasure.
The EXPO the TRUTH speaks about the fear of the artist of disappearing. This same fear which makes make in Koons monsters and with Viola increasingly large screens.
IF AT THE TIME OF the EXPO the TRUTH an artist finds the truth and takes the pin out art there will be deflagration.
Personally I will have to find the answer to the question: do I have to continue to paint or is necessary it that I cancel all?
THE EXPO THE TRUTH
wonders: Are we handled?
The EXPO the TRUTH known as: not the truth in art is not the exclusive business of the criticism of art. That concerns the creators and the painters. It is time that they know what they do and for which they do it.
The EXPO the TRUTH recalls us that the truth
is like a well bottomless, more one digs it, more it escapes to us,
more one it tracking, more it becomes pontifiante.
DREAMED SELECTION
At the beginning I thought of asking to take part in this expo that with those of which opens it proceeded of this search of the truth and who avoid the esthetism, decoration etc
Then I changed opinion.
I said myself: even purest of the esthètes at one time decides that it should be made " the beautiful one " because. and these are the three small points which interest me.
For the selection, I thought of the following artists of who I send this letter (if I find the addresses) EC IS NOT KNOWN AS THAT THEY all ACCEPT

ANDERSEN ERIC to have cut the head of small siren

ARNOUX CHRISTOPHE three small points...

MICHEL ASSO for his tape which is held with ground.
ANDRE EARLY to have written I " amndt not you everywhere "
ARTHUR CRAVAN to be condemned to 6 months of prison to have raised the skirt of Mrs Delaunay
BATAILLARD MARCEL , to paint as a blind man
BEKE LAZLO to have said: I do not say to you what I do of fear of being copied
BEN VAUTIER because I doubt
BERGEZ to have put a wall of art at Beaubourg with the nose and the beard of Pacquement
BIZOS to have exposed stolen objects.
BRUNO DUVA L, because the pansémiotique one more I read it less I include/understand it
CASTAGNOU DENIS , because it has painted the same fabric for 20 years
CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE to give pleasure with his/her mother
CHARLIER JACQUES to have said " you who suffer from art know what I speak "
CHIARI GIUSEPPE because he said that art is simple and that he does not want to leave Florence.

ROBERT COMBAS because it has his truth has him
DALIGAND to have understood that God was Mickey
DENIS CASTELLAS , because it makes perceptible the unperceivable one
DREYFUS CHARLES , because.
DUCHAMP MARCEL for all and nothing and to have insisted and to have said that it was neither anti-art, nor not-art, but A-art.
Elizabeth MORCELLET to want to replace art by the love.
EREBO ROBERT to have played the part: bottez to them the bottom with this load of cretins
ERNEST T . for its attitude towards art
F DEVAUX , because it paints like Rembrandt, but with its own shit
FLYNT HENRY to have written the leaflet of Realistic where it proposes the destruction of the mankind.
GEORGE BRECHT to have wanted to be 18th and not the first nor the last
GIBERTIE ALAIN to have said: " I am alive " and to have committed suicide
GRAFF ANTOINE because it does not arrive has to get rid of his licence egocentric person
GUILLAUMON , because it invited us in 1967 to eat as opens art
FRENCH GUINOCHET to be gone up to paint in the Place of the Hillock
HONG YOUNG HEE because it prefers the matter which makes art with art
JACQUES LIZENE to want to be the minor artist null Inhabitant of Liège of the 20eme century.
JEAN DUPUY to have realized that the evils are words.
JEAN FARMHOUSE to have sold the Museum of Nice to me as opens art
JEAN STAS to have said that reality exceeds the fiction and art
JENNY HOLZER to have said: Deceive of power comes have No surprised

SOPHIE CALLE , for her film and because it is where it is not awaited
JOHN CAGE to have opened the window
MARINE JONIER for its question marks
PINEAU of the A.M.I. to have said: it is necessary to make seeming
MICHEL ASSO for his tape which is held with ground.
NAME JUNE PAIK , because he said: when it is too perfect God does not like
PARENO to have exposed the place says the TRUTH
PICABIA to have written: where art appears the life disappears

RICHARD PIEGZA because it traps the truth with camera on Internet
ROBERT FILLIOU to have defended the geniuses of bar and the spirit of staircase.
RUY BLAS for his table: I miss in New York and because it telephones of a phone box to another phone box.
SNYERS ALAIN to have made fun of art
GHISLAVE SOSNOWSKI because Dreyfus chose
STEPHANE BERARD for his desire for being seen without being seen
TILMAN PIERRE and MARIE HELENE DUMAS for the daily newspaper
TAKAKO SAITO because it is simplicity even
TATASU ORIMOTO to have shown his/her parents as an art
XATREC CHRISTIAN , because it transformed " exists " in " exit "
YOURI because it exposed its trade of conveyor of art
FLUXUS because they wrote " demolish serious culture "
The INCOHERENT ones with ALPHONSE WENT
MICHEL BATLLE because with Articide he would like to kill art.
I invite also certain artists who, with the first access seem to be opposite camp i.e. they have a product but which, often, in texts and conversations thought of the situation and propose a vision, an attitude, a personal explanation
It is about: THUPINIER ARMAN- LOUIS DUCK - BERNARD VENET
ART ATTITUDE the expo the TRUTH makes continuation and joined my project on the art of attitude of which here the text of the time.

ON the ART Of ATTITUDE Text de1984
The art of attitude is within the linear framework of a Western history of the art which wants to be new moreover, after Duchamp, Dada, Zen, Cage, and Fluxus.
The art of attitude exists when in the artist in his work the attitude towards art, the life takes the step on the aesthetic product.
The art of attitude dissociates conceptual art of the years 1960 to 1970 which was transformed into formal easy ways.
The art of attitude has materials which are clean for him: life, anguish, glory, ego, art itself.
Thus, the artists of attitude produce attempts anti-ego built starting from their ego like butterflies around a lamp. The artist of art of attitude is posed much question.
How to make the new one without it being new? what is ugly if all is beautiful?
If I were to quote artists who return in the field of the art of attitude I would quote Robert Filliou, Jacques Lizène, Gabor Toth, Jonier Marin, Alain Gibertie etc
My own presence in this field is around certain texts in which I put myself questions about my ego, on the finality of art etc.

Ben 1984