Robert Filliou 13
Based on a 1962 photograph of Robert Filliou, Robert Filliou 13 revisits a key image in the history of conceptual exhibition practices. Rendered in cobalt blue, the faceless frontal figure remains suspended between portrait, disappearance, and visual trace. The painting engages with the language of photographic painting, sustaining a measured tension between document, image, and archive. Part of The Paintings Section from Davis Museum Barcelona, the work reflects on the museum as both artistic structure and conceptual form.
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Davis Lisboa, Robert Filliou 13, 2011. Oil on linen, 40 × 40 × 3.5 cm (15.7 × 15.7 × 1.38 in).
Based on a 1962 photograph of Robert Filliou, this painting draws on a key image in the history of artistic practices that shifted the idea of exhibition toward more mobile, precarious, and conceptual forms. The reference points to his appearance at the Festival of Misfits at Gallery One, where he presented The Frozen Exhibition.
The artist appears frontally, motionless, and without defined features, rendered in a cobalt blue monochrome. Rather than describing an identity, the painting sustains a suspended presence, poised between portrait, disappearance, and visual residue.
Formally, the work engages with the tradition of painting from photography, particularly in the tension between document and pictorial image. Blur introduces a measured distance that shifts the reference toward a more unstable and open condition.
Integrated into The Paintings Section from Davis Museum Barcelona, the work belongs to a lineage of artists who imagined their own museological structures. In this context, the painting articulates a restrained yet precise relation between image, archive, and institutional form.
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| Weight | 2.5 kg |
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| Dimensions | 40 × 40 × 3.5 cm |
