La Cédille Qui Sourit. Städtisches Museum Mönchengladbach. Eine Ausstellung in drei Teilen / An Exhibition in Three Parts / Une exposition en trois parties
Filliou, Robert & George Brecht
Mönchengladbach. Städtisches Museum Mönchengladbach. 1969
Robert Filliou and George Brecht's Mönchengladbach kassettenpublikation catalogue / multiple.
From the edition limited to 440 numbered copies.
The exhibition 'La Cedille Qui Sourit' was held at the Städtisches Museum Mönchengladbach from June 18th to July 27th, 1969. The three parts of the joint exhibition were: 'I. Vorspiel zum Cédille / Prelude to the Cedilla / Prélude à la Cédille. II. Le Cédille Qui Sourit 12 rue du May, Villefranche-sur-Mer (A. M.), September 1965 - Oktober 1968. III. Das ständige Geschehen / The Eternal Network / La Fête Permanente. Was das Cédille sein wird (ist) / What the Cedilla will be (is) / Çe que deviendra la Cédille (est devenue).'
'La Cédille Qui Sourit' was Brecht and Filliou's artist run shop, or rather 'non-shop' - the raison-d'etre was to eschew typical commercial activities - in Villefranche-sur-Mer. Stocked with artist books and multiples from Filliou and Brecht's Fluxus associates, together with examples of their own work and other ephemera from their working process: letters, jokes, puzzles, recipes, poems and sketches. The venture lasted (as indicated above) from 1965 to 1968 before its metamorphosis into 'The Eternal Network'.
Whilst the format of boxes as exhibition catalogues follows the Mönchengladbach format, the use of a matchbox design was unique, and appears to have been the brainchild of Museum Director Johnanes Cladders.
[Rennert / Titz 7].
From the edition limited to 440 numbered copies.
The exhibition 'La Cedille Qui Sourit' was held at the Städtisches Museum Mönchengladbach from June 18th to July 27th, 1969. The three parts of the joint exhibition were: 'I. Vorspiel zum Cédille / Prelude to the Cedilla / Prélude à la Cédille. II. Le Cédille Qui Sourit 12 rue du May, Villefranche-sur-Mer (A. M.), September 1965 - Oktober 1968. III. Das ständige Geschehen / The Eternal Network / La Fête Permanente. Was das Cédille sein wird (ist) / What the Cedilla will be (is) / Çe que deviendra la Cédille (est devenue).'
'La Cédille Qui Sourit' was Brecht and Filliou's artist run shop, or rather 'non-shop' - the raison-d'etre was to eschew typical commercial activities - in Villefranche-sur-Mer. Stocked with artist books and multiples from Filliou and Brecht's Fluxus associates, together with examples of their own work and other ephemera from their working process: letters, jokes, puzzles, recipes, poems and sketches. The venture lasted (as indicated above) from 1965 to 1968 before its metamorphosis into 'The Eternal Network'.
Whilst the format of boxes as exhibition catalogues follows the Mönchengladbach format, the use of a matchbox design was unique, and appears to have been the brainchild of Museum Director Johnanes Cladders.
[Rennert / Titz 7].
Card box. (210 x 160 x 20 mm). Large card box with printing to replicate a matchbox, containing a smaller real matchbox with similar printing to front cover contsaining four metal screw-hooks; also included loose are cards and booklets, a text by Cladders, a list of works by Robert Filliou and George Brecht before their collaboration, and then work completed by the pair during their stay at Villefranche, all on different paper stock and with the upper right corner removed in order to fit within the box together with the matchbox.
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