{"id":81115,"date":"2018-03-10T16:45:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T17:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2023.eva-vautier.com\/portfolio-item\/free-figuration\/"},"modified":"2024-03-26T21:28:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T22:28:31","slug":"free-figuration","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/eva-vautier.com\/en\/portfolio-item\/free-figuration\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 – BEN, Robert Combas, Jean-Charles Blais, Herv\u00e9 Di Rosa, Fran\u00e7ois Boisrond …. “FREE FIGURATION"},"content":{"rendered":"

FREE FIGURATION<\/h2>\n

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BEN
\nJean-Michel Alberola
\nJean-Charles Blais
\nR\u00e9mi Blanchard
\nFran\u00e7ois Boisrond
\nRobert Combas
\nGroup Ten 10
\nHerv\u00e9 Di Rosa
\nRichard (Buddy) Di Rosa
\nPhilippe Hortala
\nTotal Mission
\nCatherine Viollet<\/h3>\n

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Exhibition from October 20 to December 1, 2018<\/h3>\n

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BEN Vautier, The Occitan Tango, 1984<\/h6>\n

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The “Figuration Libre” tells the episodes of a history of the beginnings of the decade, of a moment of political and social thaw, of celebration, of fun, testifies to a non-academic production, provocative, vital, energetic, impulsive … which refuses the theory, the organized groups, the manifestos, the standards. In France, Ben gave a name to this freedom, “Figuration Libre”, and a declaration: “Free to do what? \/ Free to do ugly \/ Free to do dirty \/ Free to prefer the graffiti of the New York subway to the paintings of the Guggenheim \/ Free to have an indigestion of Supports\/Surfaces \/ Free to say “Ben’s linear history of art, fuck it! “Free to prefer to spend the night in a nightclub than to listen to Sollers \/ Free to want to redo Matisse, Picasso, Bonnard \/ Free to sing “Mar\u00e9chal nous voil\u00e0” or “Viens Poupoule, viens” \/ Free to like Mickey Mouse, comics and not Lacan \/ Free to not give a damn if someone says to you: you copy \/ Free to say: “Carpaccio, don’t know! ” \/ Free to sell for money \/ Free to paint his dick in action \/ Free to paint on anything.” Ben, Figuration Libre, 1982.<\/em><\/p>\n

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“Figuration Libre” is an art born from popular culture, in the street, in the urban environment, in clubs, as much as in workshops and rarely in schools. A rock and punk art. Which distances itself from minimal art, from the conceptual art of language, discourse, process, from Arte Povera or Supports-Surfaces of previous decades.
\nWe live ten years of ebullitions and exchanges with the “Figuration Libre”, the collectives and the media painters in France, the Nouveaux Sauvages in Germany, the Nouveaux Artistes in Russia, the graffiti in the USA… Their culture makes that they expose together or in the same galleries, realize works, music in common.<\/p>\n

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In France, the name “Figuration Libre”, very open at the beginning, is refocused around a group formed by Remi Blanchard, Fran\u00e7ois Boisrond, Robert Combas and Herv\u00e9 Di Rosa, extended to their closest friends: Richard (Buddy) Di Rosa and Louis Jammes. Catherine Viollet exhibits with them from the beginning, makes works in common, their portraits, without their collaboration being anchored in time. In the same vein are those whom Ben calls “satellites”: himself in Nice, Philippe Hortala in Toulouse, Mission Totale in Monaco.
\nRichard (Buddy) Di Rosa testifies, “The group of friends we were was seen as the bearer of a new movement; and it’s true that the art world needed to recognize itself in something new, unexpected, provocative. “<\/p>\n

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Pascale Le Thorel, excerpt, “Libres Figurations ann\u00e9es 80”, Exhibition catalog, Fonds H\u00e9l\u00e8ne et Edouard Leclerc pour la Culture<\/p>\n

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Exhibition “Figuration Libre”, Robert Combas, Jean-Charles Blais, Fran\u00e7ois Boisrond, Ben Vautier<\/h6>\n
Photo credit Fran\u00e7ois Fernandez<\/h6>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Free Figuration” exhibition, Mission Totale, Groupe Dix 10, R\u00e9mi Blanchard<\/h6>\n
Photo credit Fran\u00e7ois Fernandez<\/h6>\n
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Exhibition “Figuration Libre”, Herv\u00e9 Di Rosa, Jean-Michel Alberola, Richard Di Rosa<\/h6>\n
Photo credit Fran\u00e7ois Fernandez<\/h6>\n

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Exhibition “Figuration Libre”, Philippe Hortala, Robert Combas<\/h6>\n
Photo credit Fran\u00e7ois Fernandez<\/h6>\n
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