Dear Skywatcher: Art Is What Makes Life More Interesting Than Art
1984
Multiple, 48 × 32 cm.
Materials: print on paper, envelope
Collection: Collection Van Lierde, Brussels - in deposition at Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon.
With the phrase ‘art is what makes life more interesting than art’, Filliou continues the idea of the Dada movement, in the early twentieth century, that ‘art is more interesting than life’. The force that drives Filliou’s work and thought is Permanent Creation.
