“Robert Filliou 26”

Conceived within the legacy of Filliou’s pedagogical aesthetics, this portrait references a frame from his “Teaching and Learning as Performing Arts, Part 2” and rearticulates it through a pictorial language indebted to Matisse and Hopper. It forms part of the Davis Museum’s critical homage to “Boîte-en-valise,” “Galerie légitime,” and “Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles.”

2,000 $

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The Davis Lisboa Mini-Museum of Contemporary Art, founded in Barcelona in 2009 by Davis Lisboa, emerges as a critical response to the tradition of artists who established their own museums, such as Duchamp, Filliou, and Broodthaers. Conceived as a ready-made sculpture and a non-profit collaborative project, the Davis Museum is a recognized cultural institution in Spain. Its painting section is divided into still lifes—depicting the “Boîte-en-valise,” “La galerie légitime,” and the “Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles”—and portraits of the three aforementioned artists. This particular portrait is conceptually inspired by a frame from Robert Filliou’s video Teaching and Learning as Performing Arts, Part 2, and formally by the paintings of Matisse and Hopper.

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Weight 6 kg
Dimensions 3 × 80 × 80 cm