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JE TOMBE PEU À PEU DANS L'OUBLI. PRESQUE PLUS PERSONNE DÉJÀ NE SE SOUVIENT DE MON ENFANCE.

L'Autofictif n° 2889, Eric Chevillard, mercredi 9 mars 2016

Ron Arad

Ripple chair for Moroso, 2005

Ron Arad est un designer israélien né le 24 avril 1951 à Tel-Aviv. Installé à Londres depuis 1973. London Design Medal en 2011.

Apollo 11 mission July 20, 1969NASA

NASA

This photograph of extraterrestrial landscapes was taken by astronauts and machines under the auspices of NASA during the Apollo missions in 1969–71. Unprecedentedly, these scientific images were exhibited at an art exhibition venue, New York's Light Gallery, in 1979. Critics at the time remarked upon the similarities between these images and contemporary conceptual practices depicting elements of the American landscape being shown by leading art institutions. Aside from their scientific significance, these images of craters, footsteps, and portraits of the astronauts serve as documentation of the extraordinary human feat of the first landing on the moon.

MoMA, Gallery label from From the Collection: 1960-69, March 26, 2016 - March 12, 2017

Dieter Roth

Literature Sausage (Literaturwurst)

1969, published 1961–70

Between 1961 and 1970 Roth created about fifty "literature sausages." To make each sausage Roth followed a traditional recipe, but with one crucial twist: where the recipe called for ground pork, veal, or beef, he substituted a ground-up book or magazine. Roth mixed the ground-up pages with fat, gelatin, water, and spices before stuffing them into sausage casings. The source materials include work by authors and periodicals that the artist either envied or despised; they run the gamut from lowbrow illustrated tabloids to well-regarded contemporary German novels to the works of Karl Marx and the influential nineteenth-century philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Roth turned literature into a metaphorical object for intellectual consumption and physical subsistence.

Gallery label from From the Collection: 1960-69, March 26, 2016 - March 12, 2017