Robert Filliou – The Secret of Permanent Creation
(c)image: M HKA, Courtesy Collection Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
4644cm3 de territoir extéreur de la République genial avec message intèrieur, 1973
Mixed Media
, 46 x 37 x 3.5 cm
cardboard box, two photographs, ink
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.