Mixed Media, 46 x 37 x 3.5 cm.
©image: M HKA, Courtesy Collection Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
Collection: Collection Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf.
La République Géniale (which might be rendered as The Republic of Genius) starts from the insight that everyone has genius of a particular kind. This is Filliou’s way of ‘de-hiearchising’ a core feature of Western culture. He called himself ‘a genius without talent’. Each Republic of Genius has its own territory, which can be mobile.
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> Exhibition: Robert Filliou – The Secret of Permanent Creation. M HKA, Antwerpen, 13 October 2016 - 22 January 2017.