Optimistic Box no. 4 and 5

Optimistic Box no. 4 and 5

Robert FilliouWW-1981-M093726
1981·Ceramic pig with two printed labels·4 1/8 x 6 5/16 x 3 9/16" (10.5 x 16 x 9 cm)

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Year
1981
Dimensions
4 1/8 x 6 5/16 x 3 9/16" (10.5 x 16 x 9 cm)

Artist

Robert Filliou
Robert Filliou

Painting

Robert Filliou was a French artist and poet active in postwar experimental art movements who worked across performance, installation, and text-based practice. He founded the Fluxus-affiliated Eternal Network in the 1960s, a decentralized artistic community organized around the circulation of ideas, objects, and correspondence rather than institutional exhibition. His work emphasizes play, chance, and everyday creativity as modes of artistic practice, rejecting the autonomy of the art object in favor of collaborative, ephemeral, and mail-based exchange. Filliou's poetic interventions and performative gestures anticipated participatory and relational art practices that emerged in subsequent decades.

Sauve, France

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Year
1981
Dimensions
4 1/8 x 6 5/16 x 3 9/16" (10.5 x 16 x 9 cm)
Watts ID
WW-1981-M093726

Source

Source
moma
Status
verified

Artist

Robert Filliou

Robert Filliou

Painting

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