Jean-Jacques Lebel (; born 30 June 1936, Paris) is a French

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, poet, art collector, writer, political activist, and creator of

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art events. Besides his heterogeneous artworks and poetry, Lebel is also known for his very early work with the

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and

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s, as an

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writer with close ties to

Félix Guattari Pierre-Félix Guattari ( ; ; 30 March 1930 – 29 August 1992) was a French psychoanalyst, political philosopher, Semiotics, semiotician, social activist, and screenwriter. He co-founded schizoanalysis with Gilles Deleuze, and created ecosophy ...

Gilles Deleuze Gilles Louis René Deleuze (18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes o ...

and the American poetry and art scene. He is also an art

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and son of Robert Lebel; a poet, translator, poetry publisher, political activist, art collector, art historian and expert in the work of

Marcel Duchamp Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (, ; ; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, Futurism and conceptual art. He is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Pica ...

Life and work

Lebel had his first exhibition in 1955 at Galleria Numero in

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, Italy. After a brief period of time with

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s, Lebel exhibited in

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and

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, and then went on to exhibit at various museums and galleries around the world. He has regularly collaborated with artist and writer Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux. Beginning in 1955, Lebel published a poetry journal called ''Front Unique'' and organized various nomadic poetry festivals, such as ''La Libre Expression'' (''Free Expression'') in 1964 and ''Polyphonix'' in 1979. In the 1960s, Lebel translated into French and published various work by

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and

Gregory Corso Gregory Nunzio Corso (March 26, 1930 – January 17, 2001) was an American poet. Along with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs, he was part of the Beat Generation, as well as one of its youngest members. Early life Born N ...

. In 1960, Lebel oversaw and partook in the first European

''L'enterrement de la Chose'' in

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. For his performance there - called ''Happening Funeral Ceremony of the Anti-Process'' - Lebel invited the audience to attend a ceremony in formal dress. In a decorated room within a grand residence, a draped "cadaver" rested on a plinth which was then ritually stabbed by an "executioner" while a "service" was read consisting of extracts from the French décadent writer

Joris-Karl Huysmans Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans (, ; 5 February 1848 – 12 May 1907) was a French novelist and art critic who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans (, variably abbreviated as J. K. or J.-K.). He is most famous for the novel (1884, pub ...

and le

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. Then pall-bearers carried the coffin out into a gondola and the "body" - which was in fact a mechanical sculpture by

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- was ceremonially slid into the canal. During the 1960s, Lebel closely followed the work of the avant-garde American theatre group

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. He extensively interviewed the group's members and accompanied them during rehearsal, which would lead to the 1969 book ''Entretiens avec le Living Theatre.'' Lebel published the first critical essay in French on the Happening movements throughout the world, citing the 1920 ''Dada-Messe'' (First International

Dada Dada () or Dadaism was an anti-establishment art movement that developed in 1915 in the context of the Great War and the earlier anti-art movement. Early centers for dadaism included Zürich and Berlin. Within a few years, the movement had s ...

Fair) as the key precedent of the modern happening in Europe. After this, he produced over 70 Happenings, performances and actions on numerous continents, including ''Pour conjurer l'esprit de catastrophe'' (1962), ''Déchirex'' (1965) and ''120 minutes dédiées au divin marquis'' (1966). In 1967 he staged in

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at the ''Festival de la Libre Expression''

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's 1941 surrealist theatrical farce in six acts ''Le Désir attrapé par la queue'' (''Desire Caught by the Tail''). For it, Lebel invited

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to perform and later that year Lebel was arrested for promoting nudity in Knokke, Belgium for a happening he did with

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. In 1968, Lebel took part in the activities of '' Mouvement du 22-mars'', followed by ''Noir et Rouge'', an

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group, and the

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splinter group ''Informations et Correspondences Ouvrières.'' Lebel also followed the philosophical teachings of

at Faculty de Vincennes at Paris 8 University. 1980 Lebel organized a ''Performance Festival'' at the ARC - Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, amongst others with Harry de Kroon, Julien Blaine, Joel Hubaut and Barbara Heinisch. With François Pain he produced the 90 minute long ''Monument à Félix Guattari, le film'' and in 1994 he installed a large assemblage entitled ''Monument à

'' in the Forum of the

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. Since 2001 he has frequently exhibited his ''Manifestation Itinérante'' and his

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animation ''Reliquaire pour un culte de Vénus'' that is based on the concept of ''vénusté'' as put forward by

Pierre Klossowski Pierre Klossowski (; ; 9 August 1905 – 12 August 2001) was a French writer, translator and artist. He was the eldest son of the artists Erich Klossowski and Baladine Klossowska, and his younger brother was the painter Balthus. Life Born in ...

. In 2001, he was the guest curator at the

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of the

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work of

called ''Picasso Erotique'' and appeared on the

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show. The exhibition traveled to the

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in Barcelona and Galerie nationale du jeu de paume in Paris. A book entitled ''Picasso Erotique'' was produced by Prestel Publishing in 2001 as a result of the show. This book contains texts by Lebel, Pablo Picasso, Annie Le Brun, Pascal Quignard, Patrick Roegiers and Malen Gual. In 2009, La Maison Rouge in Paris presented all facets of Lebel's work (artist, exhibition curator, writer, performer, and art festival organizer) in an exhibition entitled ''Jean-Jacques Lebel, Soulèvements.'' The exhibition was divided into the following themes: Happenings,

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and the

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- and was illustrated with works of primitive art, works by anonymous artists and others such as Johann Heinrich Füssli,

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Guillaume Apollinaire Guillaume Apollinaire (; ; born Kostrowicki; 26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist and art critic of Poland, Polish descent. Apollinaire is considered one of the foremost poets of the ...

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André Breton André Robert Breton (; ; 19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer and poet, the co-founder, leader, and principal theorist of surrealism. His writings include the first ''Surrealist Manifesto'' (''Manifeste du surréalisme'') ...

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, Bernard Heidsieck, Erró,

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, and Peter Saul. Some three hundred works in all. The show curator was Jean de Loisy. In 2013, Laure Adler produced an extensive radio interview with Lebel called ''L'iconoclaste Jean-Jacques Lebel'' (in 5 parts) that was broadcast on

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. In 2018 he co-organized at the

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an exhibition on the theme of evil and repair called ''L’Un et l’Autre'' (One and the Other) and also that year was honored by a solo exhibition of his early work at the

entitled ''l'outrepasseur''. In 2024, the Centre Pompidou presented the exhibition ''Chaosmose: Fonds de dotation Jean-Jacques Lebel'' that displays the endowment collaboration between the Jean-Jacques Lebel Endowment Fund and the

Musée National d'Art Moderne The Musée National d'Art Moderne (; "National Museum of Modern Art") is the national museum for modern art of France. It is located in the 4th arrondissement of Paris and is housed in the Centre Pompidou. In 2021 it ranked 10th in the list of ...

.
Centre Pompidou, ''Chaosmose: Fonds de dotation Jean-Jacques Lebel'' 16 oct. 2024 - 3 févr. 2025

Bibliography

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'' Flash Art, No. 84-85, 1978 October- November, 57–63. *Faye, Jean Pierre - Jean-Jacques Lebel (eds.): Polyphonix, Change, No. 42 (special issue dedicated to Polyphonix 5), 1983, 168 p., ill., b&w. *

: Jean-Jacques Lebel - Maler der Transversalität. Jean-Jacques Lebel - Painter of Transversality, in: Todoroff, Uli - Sophie Haaser (eds.): Jean-Jacques Lebel. Builder, Skulpturen, Installationen, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Wien, 1998. 35–40. *Hegyi Dóra: Jean-Jacques Lebel. Kortárs Mûvészeti Múzeum Ludwig Múzeum Budapest. 1998. április 2 - május 10, in: Jump magazin, No. 1, 1998. 36. *Hegyi Dóra (ed.): Jean-Jacques Lebel, Ludwig Kortárs Mûvészeti Múzeum-Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest, 1998. *Labelle-Rojoux, Arnaud (ed.): Entretien avec Jean-Jacques Lebel, in: Loisy, Jean de (ed.): Hors limites. L'art et la vie 1952–1994, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1994, 109–115. *Lebel, Jean-Jacques: D'une Biennale (1960) à l'autre (1990), in: Bonito Oliva, Achille - Gabriella. *De Mila - Claudio Cerritelli (eds.): Ubi fluxus ibi motus 1990–1962, Mazzotta, Milano, 1990, 75–79. *Lebel, Jean-Jacques: De quoi il s'agit, Édition privée réservée aux amis, 1998. *Lebel, Jean-Jacques: Déchirex, in: Tolvaly Ernô - Lengyel András (eds.): Kortárs Képzômûvészeti Szöveggyûjtemény, A & E '93 Kiadó, 1992, 84–85. *Lebel, Jean-Jacques: Ginsberg/Flash/Ginsberg. Flash/Ginsberg/Flash, Édition privée réservée aux amis, 1997. *Lebel, Jean-Jacques: Happenings d'une bastille, l'autre, in: Dreyfus, Charles (ed.): Happenings & Fluxus, Galerie 1900-2000 - Galerie du Genie - Galerie de Poche, Paris, 1989, 7-15. *Lebel, Jean-Jacques: Julien Blaine. Éloge de la multiplicité, in: Kanal Europe, No. 1, 1993, 37. *Lebel, Jean-Jacques: Le happening, Les Lettres Nouvelles, Denoël, 1966, 89 p., ill., b&w. *Lebel, Jean-Jacques: Légende, in: Bonito Oliva, Achille - Gabriella De Mila - Claudio Cerritelli (eds.): Ubi fluxus ibi motus 1990–1962, Mazzotta, Milano, 1990, 81–84. *Lebel, Jean-Jacques: Megjegyzések a politikai utcaszínházról, in: Ungvári Tamás (szerk.): A dráma mûvészek ma. Írók, rendezôk, kritikusok korunk drámájáról, Gondolat, Budapest, 1974, 468–475. *Lebel, Jean-Jacques: On the Necessity of Violation, in: Sandford, Mariellen R. (ed.): Happenings and Other Acts, Routledge, London - New York, 1995, 268–284. *Lebel, Jean-Jacques: On the Necessity of Violation. Paris Postscript, May/June 1968, in:

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Wolf Vostell Wolf Vostell (14 October 1932 – 3 April 1998) was a German painter and sculptor, considered one of the early adopters of video art and installation art and pioneer of Happenings and Fluxus. Techniques such as blurring and Dé-coll/age are ...

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, Pop Art,

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. Jean-Jacques Lebel.

Dick Higgins Dick Higgins (15 March 1938 – 25 October 1998) was an American artist, composer, art theorist, poet, publisher, printmaker, and a co-founder of the Fluxus international artistic movement (and community). Inspired by John Cage, Higgins was ...

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Catherine Millet Catherine Millet (; born 1 April 1948) is a French writer, art critic, curator, and founder and editor of the magazine ''Art Press'', which focuses on modern art and contemporary art. Biography Born in Bois-Colombes, France, she is best known ...

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", (Milano: Edizioni Gabriele Mazzotta, 1998): 7-30. *Stiles, Kristine: "La Crise de l'avant-garde," and an "Interview with Jean-Jacques Lebel," + - 0 russels34 (October, 1981): 32–33, 35–36. *Stiles, Kristine: "Jean-Jacques Lebel’s Phoenix and Ashes," in Jean-Jacques Lebel (London: Mayor Gallery, 2003): 3-15. *Todoroff, Uli - Sophie Haaser (eds.): Jean-Jacques Lebel. Builder, Skulpturen, Installationen, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Wien, 1998.

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