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Paris (4e)
Semiose
Surreal Panchounette presence?
My eye!
Présence Panchounette
From 31 August to 5 October
Opening on 31 August
Against the backdrop of the student
and workers' revolts of May-June
1968 and the ultra-politicised 1970s
ultra-politicised years, Présence
Panchounette has immersed itself
and, in its own way, captured the
situationist message about the
avant-gardes. ‘Dadaism wanted to
to suppress art without realising it
while ‘Surrealism wanted
to realise art without suppressing it
summed up Guy Debord (1931-1994). Far from
dada and surrealism,
it is more appropriate to draw the consequences of their respective
historical impasses. [...] While
the Parisian Surrealist group
dissolved itself in 1969 and the
situationists did the same
in 1972, Présence Panchounette
gave its own critical definition,
insolent, declassifying
post-artistic production. [...]
After fifty
years of aesthetic transfigurations
to what extent has the
symbolic operation of recognising
of the art object reach a degree of incandescence
to such a degree of incandescence that it causes
that it arouses embarrassment or concern
of the beholder? Have we
become totally blasé?
Under certain conditions,
the resources of bad taste
remain invigorating, retorts
Présence Panchounette, because
because they preserve the sense
of surprise: ‘What is
intolerable about vulgarity is its
its innocence’, says the collective.
