Jean-Jacques Lebel
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Jean-Jacques Lebel (* 1936 in Paris ) is a French artist and translator.
Life
Lebel comes from a family of artists; his father was Robert Lebel and his mother the painter Nina Lebel . In 1940, at the beginning of the western campaign ( World War II ), the Lebels fled to the USA and lived in New York until the end of 1944 .
Lebel made his successful debut as an artist as early as 1955 with an exhibition in the Galleria Numero in Florence . Some of his first exhibitions and happenings , for which he is still known today, were created with the collaboration of Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux .
From 1955 Lebel also published the poetry journal Front Unique and began to translate the writings of friends and colleagues such as William S. Burroughs , Gregory Corso , Lawrence Ferlinghetti , Allen Ginsberg and Michael McClure .
In 1960 Lebel played a key role in the creation and implementation of L'enterrement de la chose , Europe's first happening; it took place in Venice . Texts by Joris-Karl Huysmans and Marquis de Sade were combined with installations a. a. joined by Jean Tinguely .
In 2001 the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal appointed Lebel as curator for the exhibition Picasso Erotique . This exhibition was then shown with great success in the Museu Picasso ( Barcelona ) and in the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume (Paris).
In 2009, at La Maison Rouge , a museum for contemporary art in the Marais (Paris), Lebel's life's work was on view under the title Jean-Jacques Lebel, Soulèvements .
Until November 2014, the ZKM in Karlsruhe showed a retrospective of Lebel's works since 1960.
Some of his works can be seen in the permanent exhibition of the Museum FLUXUS + in Potsdam.
Fonts (selection)
- De quoi il s'agit . Paris 1998.
- Le happening Paris 1966.
- Ubi fluxus ibi motus . Milan 1990.
literature
- Michaël Androula: Happenings de Jean-Jacques Lebel ou l'insoumission radicale . Hazan, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-7541-0351-0 .
- Sophie Delage: Jean-Jacques Lebel. Un artiste kaléidoscopique . Dissertation, University of Paris 2006 (2 volumes).
- Bernd Dürr (Ed.): Jean-Jacques Lebel, Fluxus. Peintures, collages . Galerie Bernd Dürr, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-927872-01-6 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name, Art Cologne , November 14-20 , 1991).
- Harald Falckenberg: Erró, Jean-Jacques Lebel. 1955-2011 . Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86984-252-3 .
- Jean de Loisy (Ed.): Hors limites. L'art et la vie 1952-1994 . Musée National d'Art Moderne, PAris 1994, ISBN 2-85850-796-1 .
- Clelia Palmes (Ed.): Jean-Jacques Lebel. Peintures . Edition Silvana, Cinisello Balsamo 2012, ISBN 978-88-366-2487-4 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name, Musée d'art moderne Saint-ètienne, October 27, 2012 to January 27, 2013).
- Uli Todoroff (Ed.): Jean-Jacques Lebel. Pictures, sculptures, installations . Museum Moderne Kunst, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-900776-72-5 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name, MUMOK , January 31 to March 15, 1998).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lebel, Jean-Jacques |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French artist and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |