Jean-Jacques Lebel (1936) - Disegno per il monumento a Felix Guittari

Jean-Jacques Lebel (Paris, 1936), “Drawing for the monument to Felix Guattari.” 1992. Mixed media on paper. Unsigned work. Dimensions 33 x 24 cm. In excellent condition - mounted on a passe-partout. The work is a preparatory drawing for a sculpture that the Artist dedicates to the French philosopher Felix Guattari. The work was exhibited in a show in Pesaro titled Rue Rossini – Les rencontres rossiniennes. In which the fascination of the Artist with the composer is celebrated. In the exhibition, besides this drawing, other works by Lebel were displayed, expressing the Artist’s constant search to graphically reproduce the relationship between sound and movement. Bibliography: - Rue Rossini Les rencontres rossiniennes by Juan-Jacques Lebel. (Catalog of the exhibition held in Pesaro, curated by Franca Mancini, in 1996). Reproduced in color on page 30. The catalog will be provided together with the work. Purchase outside the EU is not advised (the order could be delayed or cancelled). Jean-Jacques Lebel ( French: [ ləbɛl ] ; born June 30, 1936 in Paris) is a visual artist, poet, art collector, writer, political activist and creator of French performance art and happenings. In addition to his heterogeneous works [1] and poetry, Lebel is also known for his early work with the Beat Generation and happenings, as a writer of art theory with close ties to Félix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze and the American art and poetry scene. He is also an art curator and the son of Robert Lebel; poet, translator, poetry editor, political activist, art collector, art historian and expert on Marcel Duchamp’s work. [2] Life and work Lebel held his first show in 1955 at the Galleria Numero in Florence. After a brief spell with the Surrealists, he exhibited in Milan and Paris, then continued with shows in various museums and galleries worldwide. He regularly collaborated with the artist and writer Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux. From 1955, Lebel published a poetry magazine titled Front Unique and organized several itinerant poetry festivals, such as La Libre Expression (Free Expression) in 1964 and Polyphonix in 1979. In the 1960s, Lebel translated into French and published several works by William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gregory Corso. In 1960, Lebel supervised and participated in the first European Happening L’enterrement de la Chose in Venice. For his performance there – called Happening Funeral Ceremony of the Anti-Process – Lebel invited the audience to attend a formal dress ceremony. In a room inside a large residence, a “corpse” draped lay on a pedestal which was ritually stabbed by a “executioner” while a “service” was read consisting of excerpts from the French decadent writer Joris-Karl Huysmans and the Marquis de Sade. Then the bearers bore the coffin out on a gondola and the “body” – which was in fact a mechanical sculpture by Jean Tinguely – was ceremonially let slide into the canal. [3] In the 1960s, Lebel closely followed the work of the American avant-garde theatre group The Living Theatre. He interviewed group members at length and accompanied them during rehearsals, experience that culminated in the book Entretiens avec le Living Theatre of 1969. Lebel published the first critical essay in French on Happening movements worldwide, citing Dada-Messe of 1920 (First Dada International Fair) as a key precursor to modern European happenings. Subsequently, he produced over 70 Happenings, performances and actions across multiple continents, including Pour conjurer l'esprit de catastrophe (1962), Déchirex (1965) and 120 minutes dédiées au divin marquis (1966). In 1967 he staged at Gassin, at the Festival de la Libre Expression, Pablo Picasso’s six-act surrealist theatrical burlesque Le Désir attrapé par la queue (Desire Caught by the Tail). For the occasion, Lebel invited Soft Machine to perform and, later that same year, Lebel was arrested for promoting nudity in Knokke, Belgium, for an happening he had carried out with Yoko Ono. [4] In 1968, Lebel participated in the activities of the Mouvement du 22-mars, followed by Noir et Rouge, an anarchist group, and the socialist split group Informations et Correspondences Ouvrières. Lebel also studied Gilles Deleuze’s philosophical teachings at the Faculty de Vincennes of the University Paris 8. In 1980 Lebel organized a Performance Festival at ARC - Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, among others with Harry de Kroon, Julien Blaine, Joel Hubaut and Barbara Heinisch. With François Pain he produced the 90-minute film Monument à Félix Guattari, the film and in 1994 installed a large installation titled Monument à Félix Guattari in the Forum of the Centre Pompidou. Since 2001 he has frequently exhibited his Manifestation Itinérante and his morphing animation of digital art Reliquaire pour un culte de Vénus which is based on the concept of venustas proposed by Pierre Klossowski. In 2001, he was a guest curator at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts for Pablo Picasso’s erotic works called Picasso Erotique and appeared on the Charlie Rose Show. [5] The show traveled to the Museu Picasso in Barcelona and to the Galerie nationale du jeu de paume in Paris. A book entitled Picasso Erotique was produced by Prestel Publishing in 2001 as a result of the show. This book contains texts by Lebel, Pablo Picasso, Annie Le Brun, Pascal Quignard, Patrick Roegiers and Malen Gual. In 2009, La Maison Rouge in Paris presented all facets of Lebel’s work (artist, exhibition curator, writer, performer and organizer of art festivals) in a show titled Jean-Jacques Lebel, Soulèvements. The show was divided into the following themes: Happenings, Insubordination, Poetry, Hallucination, Eros, Dada, War and Rhizome, and was illustrated with primitive art, works by anonymous artists and others such as Johann Heinrich Füssli, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Louise Michel, Charles Fourier, Ravachol, Guillaume Apollinaire, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Otto Dix, George Grosz, André Breton, Francis Picabia, Antonin Artaud, Victor Brauner, Bernard Heidsieck, Erró, Antonio Saura and Peter Saul. In total about three hundred works. The show’s curator was Jean de Loisy. [6] In 2013, Laure Adler produced a wide radio interview with Lebel titled L’iconoclaste Jean-Jacques Lebel (in 5 parts) broadcast on France Culture. [7] In 2018 he co-organized at the Palais de Tokyo a show on the theme of evil and repair called L’Un et l’Autre (One and the Other) [8] and in the same year he was honored with a personal show of his early works at the Centre Pompidou titled l’outrepasseur. [9] In 2024, the Centre Pompidou presented the Chaosmose exhibition: Fonds de dotation Jean-Jacques Lebel, which shows the endowment collaboration between the Jean-Jacques Lebel Endowment Fund and the Musée National d’Art Moderne. [10]

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