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Recherche sur l’origine 1974
ADN Collection: Robert Filliou, Locker Room, 19 September - 9 November 2024

Recherche sur l’origine 1974: ADN Collection: Robert Filliou

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Recherche sur l’origine 1974, ADN Collection: Robert Filliou

The next September 19th, ADN Galeria inaugurates “Recherche sur l'origine 1974”, a Robert Filliou exhibition.

 

It’s been 50 years since Robert Filliou produced the piece Recherche sur l'origine between Berlin and Düsseldorf, which, in conjunction with Principe d'équivalence and Le Poïpoïdrome, is the artist's most emblematic triad. It is a monumental textile work of almost 84 meters long by 2.71 meters high, covered with inscriptions, symbols and drawings from the sciences, religions and myths where he claims a parallelism between universal creation and human creation processes.

Fortunately for us, and following the usual formula of the time, Filliou produced an edition of 400 copies that are not just a miniaturization of the original model. The edition includes a booklet that helps us to understand the intentionality of the piece and the decisive stages of cosmogonic creation - Big Bang, expansion and condensation, separation between matter and antimatter, the radioactive era, the distribution of stars, the appearance of white dwarfs, the birth of the sun, of the earth, of life on earth, of consciousness, etc. -thus operating a rapprochement between astrophysics and Eastern mystical philosophies and following the Tao of Physics of Fritjof Capra.

 

Thus, Robert Filliou leads us to a repertoire of experiences, competencies and knowledge that are within everyone's reach, and for this very reason denote a political positioning of socialist and anarchist tradition. For example, the marvelous idea of the Principle of Equivalence between the well done, the badly done and the not done, is revealed to us as antagonistic to the false emancipatory paradigm of meritocracy, distinction and strong authorship proper to modernity - read indistinctly Western capitalism.

 

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  • Robert Filliou, 7 childlike uses of warlike material, 1971
    Robert Filliou, 7 childlike uses of warlike material, 1971
  • Robert Filliou, Dear Skywatcher, 1984
    Robert Filliou, Dear Skywatcher, 1984
  • Robert Filliou, Le Jeu de vie. [O! Le Jeu de Vi(d)e], 1984
    Robert Filliou, Le Jeu de vie. [O! Le Jeu de Vi(d)e], 1984
  • Robert Filliou, With Love from Cromagnon, 1972-1973
    Robert Filliou, With Love from Cromagnon, 1972-1973
  • Robert Filliou. Recherche sur l'origine, 1973-74
    Robert Filliou. Recherche sur l'origine, 1973-74
  • Robert Filliou, Drunken Horse, 1972
    Robert Filliou, Drunken Horse, 1972
  • Robert Filliou, La nostalgie du souvenir, 1980
    Robert Filliou, La nostalgie du souvenir, 1980
  • Robert Filliou, Joker, 1969
    Robert Filliou, Joker, 1969
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