LA PLAQUE TOURNANTE (composers and sound artists FRÉDÉRIC ACQUAVIVA and LORE LIXENBERG) are happy to present every first saturday of the months (from April 5 to Dec 6) a series of exhibitions and events held at THE OUTSIDERS GALLERY in London, after their initial location in Berlin-Neukölln.
LA PLAQUE TOURNANTE supports all the fights of invisible, disappeared and marginalised people, especially AVANT-GARDE artists that are totally forgotten or still unknown.
One of our strong focuses is to bring into the light the LETTRIST movement founded in 1946 by the Romanian poet and artist ISIDORE ISOU (1925-2007), of which we celebrate the 100 anniversary.
Isidore Isou's ideas were to found a group and work collectively to reshape the world and all forms of knowledge under the prism of CREATIVITY.
Active on all fields from 1946 to his death in 2007, Isou and the 300 lettrist artists that participated in the group proposed numerous societal transformations. LETTRISM is at that time, the only avant-garde movement to create in 1949 a political party : YOUTH UPRISING, in order to make people become their own Gods of creativity, with the motto " ALL GODS, ALL MASTERS". Isou and lettrists ideas rapidly attracted GUY DEBORD who joined lettrism in 1951, before founding SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL in 1957 and many of Isou's ideas spread and culminated in the MAY 68 events.
If the lettrists started with the transformation of poetry (by the unification of music and poetry, opening the paths to SOUND POETRY), they rapidly developed HYPERGRAPHY (the unification of writing and painting) since the 1940's, being precursors to many mouvements such as graffiti art.
On JUNE 7th and ONLY ON THIS DAY, we present a unique show on the lettrist artist BROUTIN. BROUTIN (born in France in 1948) joined the lettrist movement after May 1968.
He is one of the very few lettrist artists that can claim to have been in the lettrist movement for more than half a century.
Broutin developed a unique artistic style, both minimalist and conceptual, while been able to reinvent himself over the years.
He has also been a prominent defender of Isou's texts, notably the ones around YOUTH UPRISING, making him one of the most involved lettrists in political action.
Broutin is the subject of a monographic book and documentary film, both to be completed soon, as well as being the only openly LGBT+ in the lettrist movement.
He was also one of the few lettrists to live outside France, first in Italy, then Berlin, before settling in Nice, where he currently lives, having developed over the past few years Parkinsons disease.
At 5PM, Broutin will make a unique performance through livestream, expanding for the last time his biggest ever work called TGA (Très Grande Acquaviva). At the moment it is composed of 70 canvases of 40 x 30 cm to which he will add 10 new canvases live (called The Parkinson Effect), using the disease as a possible extension of his technique and inspiration.
This performance is made possible through the help of his partner Nenad Boharevic, who will assist him technically in Nice, while being transmitted in livestream at The Outsiders Gallery in London, with the 70 previous canvases displayed on the floor.
Apart from this work and unique event, other key works of Broutin will be displayed on the walls, showing his different styles, like the 6 part retable on Giotto shown in the UK for the first time, as well as 2 very early works of 1968-1969 on non-prepared canvas.
We will also see Broutin's fantastic series on The Inhabitants of NY who he considers to be the biggest living sculpture, and specifically a prophetic work he created in 1991 on the planet's response to the human mistreatment, as well as some hypergraphic selfportraits while chatting on the internet. Finally, one will also see Broutin's a-optical response in 2013 to his iconic Joconde-like "Aoptical Frame" that you can see in the vitrine and that encourages you to take a selfie with him to spread it like a virus on social networks.
COME IN YOUR MASSES ON JUNE 7TH!