Robert Filliou — Multiples
Robert Filliou – multiples together with the people day collection
Robert Filliou (°1926, Sauve; †1987, Lascaux, France) felt attracted to the multiple because of the game element that multiplication offered him. Therefore, it is not without reason that he is called one of the heirs of Marcel Duchamp: like this illustrious predecessor he introduces commonplace (mass consumption) objects into art in a playful-ironic way. He transforms everyday reality into the support for his complex stock of ideas. A number of his multiples are exhibited here, together with a work which has been in the collection from the very beginning of the M HKA: Projet de toilettes pour le musée de Mönchengladbach (1969).
Recently, the M HKA acquired a beautiful ensemble of multiples by Filliou, which will now be shown for the first time in the collection presentation on the upper floors, and in parallel with the exhibition.
Items
A selection from 1000 basic Japanese Poems/ein Sublimat aus 1000 Gedichte japanisch, 1971
Book with 80 poems written by Robert Filliou in english between 1961-1963. The poems are based on a little japanese book dedicated to Makoto Ohoka.
Project for Sky-Writing (planche n°1), 1971
Ed. Hartmut Kaminski, Düsseldorf Part of the series (5 in one portfolio and 5 separate ones). Images of the sky + tekst like Love =U.f.o. and 1666 km/h. Texts that could have been written in the sky by an airplane.