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Robert Filliou
MAMCO GENEVA

Inside one of the final works of a Fluxus artist for whom artmaking was part of a permanent, endless process embedded in everyday life

Pbk, 6.25 x 9 in. / 96 pgs / 60 color / 5 bw. | 9/30/2025 | Awaiting stock
$29.95



Robert Filliou: The Secret of Permanent Creation
MOUSSE PUBLISHING

This is the first substantial English-language overview on the legendary ‘60s Fluxus artist and poet Robert Filliou (1926–87).

Pbk, 7.5 x 9.5 in. / 320 pgs / 122 color / 140 bw. | 6/27/2017 | Not available
$40.00



Robert FilliouRobert Filliou

Published by MAMCO Geneva.
Edited by Lionel Bovier. Text by Michel Collet, Sophie Costes.

This book showcases Eins. Un. One... (1984), one of the last major works of French American artist Robert Filliou (1926–87), which consists of 5,000 blue, red, yellow, black, white and wood-colored dice of various sizes, each with a single dot on its face, randomly distributed over a surface of nine meters in diameter. This new volume of the MAMCO Collection series contains an introductory text by Michel Collet, who explains the conceptual power of Filliou's practice, while Sophie Costes carefully surveys all the artist's works in the museum's collection. She shows how Filliou used play, action, philosophy and language to question the foundations of artistic creation with humor and benevolence. While Filliou rubbed shoulders with Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, John Cage, Allan Kaprow and Daniel Spoerri, he remained a discrete figure who wanted to abolish the arbitrary hierarchies established by art history.



PUBLISHER
MAMCO Geneva

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6.25 x 9 in. / 96 pgs / 60 color / 5 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Forthcoming

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2025 p. 102   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9782940656141 TRADE
List Price: $29.95 CAD $41.95 GBP £24.99

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Awaiting stock

STATUS: Forthcoming | 9/30/2025

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Robert Filliou: The Secret of Permanent CreationRobert Filliou: The Secret of Permanent Creation

Published by Mousse Publishing.
Edited with text by Anders Kreuger. Text and interview by Irmeline Leeber.

With illustrations of nearly 192 works, it also features the transcript of an extensive conversation between Filliou and the Brussels-based art critic Irmeline Lebeer, recorded on seven cassette tapes in August 1976 in Flayosc in southern France. This conversation is structured as an abécédaire and touches on a variety of topics pertaining to Filliou’s art and thinking, from amitié (friendship) to zen. This conversation was intended to form the backbone of an extensive monograph but was never published—until now. Robert Filliou: The Secret of Permanent Creation illuminates the mind and the practice of this massively underpublished artist, whose influence on subsequent generations has been both clandestine and colossal.



PUBLISHER
Mousse Publishing

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 7.5 x 9.5 in. / 320 pgs / 122 color / 140 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Out of print

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2017 p. 149   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9788867492619 TRADE
List Price: $40.00 CAD $54.00

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Not available

STATUS: Out of print | 00/00/00

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