PROJECT SERIES: Félix Fénéon
text by Ben Kinmont, Fabien Vallos, Félix Fénéon
- Author(s)
- Ben Kinmont, Fabien Vallos, Félix Fénéon
- Publication, year
- San Fransisco : Antinomian Press, 2013
- Scope
- 25 Pages, 30 cm.
Ben Kinmont opened an antiquarian bookselling company, specialising in cookbooks and culinary texts. After launching the company, Kinmont was invited to participate in the Centre Pompidou's Nouveau Festival in Paris. There he distributed a large broadside printed with seven short paragraphs, each describing the path of an individual artist who stopped being an artist and became something else—paragraphs that are not unlike the size and scope of this one. The text, On becoming something else, makes clear these weren't chronicles of failures, or cautionary tales of a fallen genius, but rather a collection of instances where an artist's obsessions, concerns, and questions naturally led them to a place where their work was more effective, and that just happened to be in a different profession than "artist." Lygia Clark, for example, whose body-activated sculptures grew to be more and more concerned with their healing potential, saw her work evolve into a full-time psychotherapy practice. Just as the modern era saw art step off the canvas onto the wall, into the room, out the door and onto the street, onto land, and into life, these artists made art that went a step further and left art behind. The start of each of these paragraphs is punctuated, in bold type, by the declaration of the artists' metamorphosed field: activism, social work, farming, medicine, yoga.
- Location
- Cabinet 24 - 3: Voedsel
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