{"id":2504,"date":"2015-05-30T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T22:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmichaelclarke.com\/?p=2504"},"modified":"2017-05-06T16:45:05","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T14:45:05","slug":"hulaut-clarke-hotel-particulier-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davidmichaelclarke.com\/?p=2504&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Hulaut & Clarke : H\u00f4tel Particulier"},"content":{"rendered":"
Conversation between Anabelle Hulaut & David Michael Clarke about H\u00f4tel Particulier.<\/strong>
\nMuseum of Art and History, Ch\u00e2teau-Gontier, France.
\n30th May to 30th August, 2015.<\/div>\n
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For this exhibition, Hulaut and Clarke present artists who they consider to be references. The artists as curators search to produce conversations and weave a web with works from the museum\u2019s permanent collection, a true cabinet of curiosities.<\/p>\n

Richard Baqui\u00e9, Jean-Yves Br\u00e9livet, Sophie Calle, Patrice Carr\u00e9, Fran\u00e7ois Courbe, Fran\u00e7ois Curlet, Jason Dodge, EDS Collectif, Christelle Familiari, Hans Peter Feldmann, Robert Filliou, Bernadette Gen\u00e9e et Alain Le Borgne, Jacques Halbert, Ron Haselden, Sharon Kivland, Lucas L\u2019Hermitte, Georgia Nelson, Karen Knorr, Cindy Sherman, David Shrigley, Ernest T, Laurent Tixador.<\/p>\n

Thanks to FRAC Bretagne, FRAC Pays de la Loire, FRAC Basse-Normandie, Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts de la Ville  de Nantes, Mus\u00e9e Municipal de la Roche-sur-Yon.<\/p>\n

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Robert Filliou \u00e0 l’entr\u00e9e de l’exposition. Exposition: Hotel Particulier. Comissaires: Anabelle Hulaut & David Michael Clarke. Mus\u00e9e d’art et d’Histoire. Ch\u00e2teau-Gontier. 2005. Photo: Marc Domage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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AH : The exhibition \u00ab H\u00f4tel Particulier \u00bb or \u00abTown House\u00bb begins with a work by Robert Filliou. He\u2019s associated with the Fluxus group in the sixties. Having said this, like Beuys, he\u2019s a bit apart. In a very clear manner, both Beuys and Fillion posed certain philosophical questions as to the nature of art. Fillion\u2019s statement, \u00abArt is what makes life more interesting than art\u00bb is no doubt one of the most quoted phrases in contemporary art.<\/p>\n

DMC : It\u2019s his principal of \u00abpermanent creation\u00bb. Art isn\u2019t simply something that one does in one\u2019s studio before going home. Just as Beuys said, \u00abeveryone is an artist\u00bb. What they were trying to say is that creativity exists in all of us, all the time. It\u2019s simply up to us if we activate it or not.<\/p>\n

AH : It\u2019s also a philosophy of life. They didn\u2019t make a separation between art and life. Filliou and Beuys were more than radical artists, the also had radical ideas about teaching art. The question wasn\u2019t so much \u00abhow to teach art\u00bb, more it was \u00abteaching as art\u00bb. These questions are essential, but Filliou in particular always treated these subjects with humour and a light, poetical touch. Filliou also established a protocol of artwork, \u00abthe principal equivalence\u00bb. To be precise he said that a work of art could exist in one of three states, \u00abwell made, badly made or unmade\u00bb. <\/p>\n

DMC : Without a doubt, Filliou created this protocol to open up the realm of possibility for art. It seems right to evoke the subject today, because it brings to mind the enormous gap that has opened up between art and the public at large.<\/span><\/p>\n

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