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Plakat fyrir sýninguna „Pour conjurer l’esprit de catastrophe“ („Að særa burt anda stórslysanna“)

Plakat fyrir sýninguna „Pour conjurer l’esprit de catastrophe“ („Að særa burt anda stórslysanna“)

Erró


  • Year : 1962
  • Height : 71.6 cm
  • Width : 46 cm
  • Category : Annað
  • Sub-category : Offset prentun

“The Meca-Make-Up series was the first to be painted from preliminary collages. These images were as hard-hitting as insults. Everything at that time was violent. It was the period of the Algerian War and the Vietnam War. Even rock music was violent. And happenings we did in Paris—at the American Center and the Boulogne movie studios—and in London at Denisson Hall, were violent. Our reaction to the violence of the society was violent, even savage.” – Erró In Paris, at the Raymond Cordier Gallery, Erró took part in Jean-Jacques Lebel’s happening Pour conjurer l’esprit de catastrophe (To Exorcise the Spirit of Catastrophe) with, among others, Daniel Pommereulle, François Dufrêne, Johanna Lawrenson, Philippe Hiquily, Tetsumi and Hiroko Kudo, David Allen, Jacques Gabriel, Walter McLean, and Désirée Schrönhoven. The happening took place during the Cuban Missile Crisis, which was the crisis point of the Cold War, raising the specter of nuclear holocaust. It was a protest event created by anxious and rebellious young artists. At the request of the Italian filmmaker Gualterio Jacopetti, a second version of Pour conjurer l’esprit de catastrophe was filmed in 1963 in the Boulogne movie studios. The happening then appeared in a truncated and misleading form in a film by Jacopetti and Paolo Cavara about the strange behavior and practices of Europeans, Malamondo (1964).

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