FILLIOU (P)AVEC LEBELLE: ROBERT FILLIOU — GUILLAUME LEBELLE
Past exhibition
Overview
Avec la complicité de Bernard Marcadé
Exposer avec Robert Filliou
J’ai connu certaines de ses phrases aux Beaux-Arts, avant de découvrir ses pièces. Il était vu comme un artiste phare (dans le sens où il éclaire un pan qui était dans l’ombre) , un peu aussi dans la case des intouchables : état d’esprit hors du commun et très touchant. Quand j’ai revu ses œuvres récemment, un sentiment de fraternité immédiate m’est venu : qu’il est bon de se faire de nouveaux amis, même quand ils sont morts !
On pourrait croire que lui et moi sommes des rives opposées puisque, pour le dire vite, il est dans ses installations et je suis dans le pictural (une des phrases que m’a dites Jean Fournier, et c’était plus qu'encourageant pour un jeune peintre à l’atelier, devant des peintures : la peinture reste une grande voie). Nous sommes sur des rives bordant le même fleuve, celui dont parle Lautreamont : La poésie n’est pas la tempête, pas plus que le cyclone. C’est un fleuve majestueux et fertile.
Le mur avec Bernard Marcadé
Je trouve palpitant de travailler avec Bernard. Là aussi, c’est une histoire dans le temps : il visitait régulièrement l’atelier où j’étais aux Beaux-Arts, et on se recroise deux décennies plus tard pour reprendre la conversation avec ce « carottage » rendu mural.
Quand on est avec Bernard on est aussi dans ce grand écart entre Duchamp et Leroy, ce n’est pas rien...
Guillaume Lebelle
Exhibiting with Robert Filliou
I knew some of his quotations at the Beaux-Arts, before discovering his pieces. He was seen as a lighthouse artist (in the sense that he shone a light on an area that was in the shadows), a bit like one of the untouchables: an extraordinary and very touching state of mind. When I saw his work again recently, a feeling of immediate fraternity came over me: how good it is to make new friends, even when they're dead!
You might think that he and I are on opposite shores, since, to put it quickly, he is in his installations and I am in the pictorial (one of the phrases Jean Fournier said to me, and it was more than encouraging for a young painter in the studio, in front of paintings: painting remains a great path). We are on the banks of the same river, the one that Lautreamont talks about: Poetry is not a storm, any more than it is a cyclone. It is a majestic and fertile river.
The wall with Bernard Marcadé
I knew some of his quotations at the Beaux-Arts, before discovering his pieces. He was seen as a lighthouse artist (in the sense that he shone a light on an area that was in the shadows), a bit like one of the untouchables: an extraordinary and very touching state of mind. When I saw his work again recently, a feeling of immediate fraternity came over me: how good it is to make new friends, even when they're dead!
You might think that he and I are on opposite shores, since, to put it quickly, he is in his installations and I am in the pictorial (one of the phrases Jean Fournier said to me, and it was more than encouraging for a young painter in the studio, in front of paintings: painting remains a great path). We are on the banks of the same river, the one that Lautreamont talks about: Poetry is not a storm, any more than it is a cyclone. It is a majestic and fertile river.
The wall with Bernard Marcadé
I find it exciting to work with Bernard. He regularly visited the studio where I studied at the Beaux- Arts, and we met up again two decades later to resume the conversation with this 'core sample' rendered as a mural.
When you're with Bernard, you're also in this big gap between Duchamp and Leroy, which is no mean feat...
Guillaume Lebelle
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