Chroniques de la soustraction
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Counterculture, 28 November 2019

Chroniques de la soustraction

SUBTRACTION CHRONICLES Episode 7 – A Taste for The Neutral

Chronicle by Jean-Baptiste Farkas

Summary

Can an artwork exist beyond its physical dimension? If it isn’t material, can we still consider it art? This is the line of reflection suggested by Édouard Levé in his book Œuvres, which “describes the works an author has thought of but has not produced”. Behind this challenge hides the author’s penchant for “eccentric and over-agitated marginalized people” that artist Robert Filliou so aptly embodied.

  In Œuvres1, a book by French writer and artist Édouard Levé published in 2002 by P.O.L, there are several subtractions of interest, for example: Fragment 354: “Instead of being set on the tabletop, dishes are inlaid.” Fragment 408: “In a museum, paintings are covered in black paper and sculptures draped in black fabric. Only…

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