Dubuffet, Jean, Memorable Facts II, 1978
1978
Original silkscreen in color (62 passages), on Arches paper
75 x 98 cm
Numbered in pencil lower left on 70, signed and dated by the artist in pencil lower right
“These “Theatres of Memory” aim to depict – or rather, to evoke – the cacophonous form in which our perceptions and memories emerge pell-mell in the theater of our thoughts. The aim is to bring together in a tableau scenes and events from different places and times (and in different moods) as they occur in our memory.
Letter to Turkish journalist Ferit Edgü, February 3, 1979, quoted in the catalog of the exhibition Dubuffet, Les dernières années (Jeu de Paume, 1991)
About the author
Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Jean Dubuffet developed a singular body of work in the wake of Dada, based on the rejection of cultural values that he saw as an obstacle to pure artistic creation. In 1945, he coined the concept of Art Brut, which brings together artistic expressions free of all cultural influences. His entire approach is part of the same quest for a creative experience that goes against the grain of prevailing practices.
