Sub Rosa - Le Groupe Surréaliste Révolutionnaire Dotremont et Broodthaers Vol. 3 reviews
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 The Surrealist exhibit at the Centre Pompidou in Paris a few years back encompassed thousands of objects from all over the globe. Despite careful curatorial efforts to arrange this smorgasbord, it was easy to fall dizzy amid the sheer volume of bizarre, disturbing, and cheeky stuff on display. What many think of as an insurgency that consisted of André Breton, some buddies, and a few manifestos was actually a movement that continued to flower (and squirt water into eyes) across Europe for decades. Sub Rosa’s recordings of Belgium’s premiere surrealists reading their own peculiar manifestos and sparring with earnest interviewers is further evidence of surrealism’s vast reach.
The Belgians, especially Marcel Broodthaers and Christian Dotremont, often focused on language as the target and tool of their art. Broodthaers’ pieces typically consisted of little more than a single cursive letter drawn over and over again on transparent paper; Dotremont’s “logogrammes” were dense thickets of serifs that crawled across pages. Their surrealism was cruelly simple. They attacked (with) the signs to which literate adults attach meaning naturally, almost instinctively. They attacked (with) the alphabet. Less humorous than a mustache on the Mona Lisa, perhaps, but more deeply subversive. Dotremont explains on track 7 that his pieces were unscripted, that he threw away most of them and even set them on fire to amuse himself. He says that some viewers identified figures in the snowy expanses and peppery, fluid shapes of his work, but that the presence of those figures was not intentional....full text |
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