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Dans un sens, c’est « Shaman » – le grand artiste intercesseur, Beuys par exemple. En sens contraire, c’est « Showman » – le cabotin, la vedette, le mauvais côté de l’art, Damien Hirst par exemple (Philippe Dagen dixit).
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The seriousness, the rhetoric, the advantageous postures, he avoids them. In 1968, he imagined a human double figure, to overturn upside down. On one side, it is “Shaman” – the big artist intercessor, Beuys for example. In the opposite side, it is “Showman” – the ham actor, the star, the bad side of the art, Damien Hirst for example (Philippe Dagen dixit). Shaman / Showman should be posted at the entrance of all the museums of contemporary art, as a wholesome warning. The notion of Arte Povera – Poor art – expressed then by the critic Germano Celant suits him as far as this poverty is the enemy of roaming poets of of gravity.
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