M HKA HISTORY

Robert Filliou — The Secret of Permanent Creation

Back
(c)image: M HKA, Courtesy Collection Van Lierde, Brussels - in deposition at Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon

Dear Skywatcher: Art Is What Makes Life More Interesting Than Art, 1984

Robert Filliou
Multiple , 48 × 32 cm
print on paper, envelope

With the phrase ‘art is what makes life more interesting than art’, Filliou continues the idea of the Dada movement, in the early twentieth century, that ‘art is more interesting than life’. The force that drives Filliou’s work and thought is Permanent Creation.

Back