temporary and travelling

Temporary and Travelling Exhibitions (Museums and Monuments - X), Unesco, Dusseldorf,1963

a moon or a button

My exhibition A Moon or a Button, along with its companion show Like Minded, both curated by Micah Lexier, ends tomorrow at Plug In ICA, Winnipeg.
My show The Middle of the Air continues until April 14th at MKG127, Toronto.

museum

details from Town and Country by Alice and Martin Provensen, Crown Publishers, NY, 1984

Galerie Légitime (Robert Filliou's hat)

( Galerie Légitime, ca 1962-1963 / Galerie Légitime, serigraph, Galery Wilbrand, Cologne, 1969 / Galerie Légitime, ed. Hansjorg Mayer, Stuttgart, 1969 (exhibition poster that folds into a paper hat) / The Frozen Exhibition, ed. VICE-Versand, Remscheid, 1972 / still from 1977 video Porta Filliou/ Filliou c. 1964)

Inside my cap, on top of my head, I had small works of mine---at that time I used to make things where I used measurements, or I mummified them. Then in the streets of Paris I would walk through the streets, and I would come up to someone and a typical dialogue might be: "Are you interested in art, monsieur or madame?" and if they said, "Yes, yes," I would say: "Well you know I have a gallery." And if they expressed some interest I would say: "Here it is." There inside my hat were the works. They were perhaps a little bigger than this grape. And then we would look at the works.
So with the Galerie Légitime I could go through the streets, I could go also inside houses and other buildings, and many things happened to the Galerie Légitime. For instance, when I was in Germany with another version I lost it, so I went around Frankfurt looking for my gallery. At another time my gallery was stolen.

-Robert Filliou (transcribed from Porta Filliou, video, 1977)

from Robert Filliou: From Political To Poetical Economy, Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, Univeristy of British Columbia, 1994

Robert Filliou: Editions and Multiples, les presses du reel, Dijon, 2003

Fluxus, Thomas Kellein, Thames and Hudson, London, 1995

previously here and here

Summerhouse

Summerhouse is an 8 x 10 foot shack for the exhibition of new paintings, one at a time. Inaugural show coming soon. On the banks of the Red River, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

postcards from Lausanne

Richard Greaves (1952)

La Cabane à sucre, vers 1985, Beauce, Quebec

Pascal-Désir Maisonneuve (1863-1934)
L'eternelle infidèle, entre 1927 et 1928
While I was away, I was lucky enough to visit the Collection de L'Art Brut in Lausanne, Switzerland. Incredible.

Related posts here and here and here