In 1871, at the Hôtel des foreigners, in the Latin district, practically at the same time as or just after the town of Paris - in which several of them took part - a dozen of the greatest rebel poets, including Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Charles Cros, Germain Nouveau, André Gill gathered around a common project, co-written and drawn, outside the size and, in more ways, subversive: the zutic album. It was one of the first and more important collective works announcer of the modern spirit in Europe. During the 20th century, some artists and poets devoted themselves further than others to intersubjective experimentation and cooperative working methods. To start, Dadaists and surrealists. The exquisite corpses first written and then drawn collectively by the surrealists, from 1925, according to the principle of intuitive or "automatic" collaboration, constitutes the most radiant example. It is this explosive mixture of the inventions of artists and professional writers with those of "citizens who came from elsewhere" who provided one of the most disruptive and liberators of "group eros". From the artistic production of the 20th and 21st centuries, it appears that many collaborations between artists are the fruit of friendships, fortuitous or deliberate meetings (like the Cacodylate eye of Picabia and his relatives, in 1921), or as the big Collective anti -fascist table, cry of choral revolt against colonialism and torture of 1960). Here it is the spontaneous mode of production, allowing to multiply creative energies, which imports more than any other technical or formal concern. Of Picasso in Picabia, from Calder to Miró, from Gabrielle Buffet to ARP, from Hains to Bryen or Villeglé , from Matta to Brauner, from Brecht to Filliou, from Beuys to Paik, from Germaine Richier to Hartung, from Salomé to Fetting, from Camilla Adami to Peter Saul, from Klein to Tinguely, from Spoerri to Kaprow, from Warhol to Basquiat, from McCarthy in Rhoades, from Roth to Rainer, from burrows to Gysin, from Pommereulle to Fleischer - without forgetting the different forms of art -action, including happening - a hundred works will be combined offering - for the first time - different types collaborative works from public and private collections.
This exhibition will provide proof that philosophers, writers, musicians, filmmakers - all kinds combined - have also produced experimental collective works which, by their sing The same, bring into play and in question the scale of "market values" and the dominant aesthetic codes.
An illustrated catalog will include tests making a history of these productions, specifying the chosen choices as well as that of the apart works , opening avenues for reflection on the passage of the I to the us. We will see that some artists have accomplished a college and intersubjective qualitative leap to which academic historians, to date, have been obstinately blind.
Commissariat:
Jean-Jacques Lebel, visual artist, writer, creator of demonstrations Artistic
Blandine Chavanne, Conductor General of Heritage Exhibition designed and produced by the MUCEM in co -production with the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg