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1978- BIENNALE DE VENISE PIERRE RESTANY COMMISSAIRE

Catalogue Biennale de Venise 1976 (First Volume)

Artistes du la sélection française invités par Pierre Restany

Hervé Fischer (Collectif d'Art Sociologique)

Fred Forest (Collectif d'Art Sociologique)

Jean-Paul Thénot (Collectif d'Art Sociologique)

Raymond Hains

Alain Jacquet

Jean- Pierre Raynaud

Bertand Lavier

Jean-Michel Sanejouand

Environment and participation : a psychological theme. The freench secion offers some concrete proposals for a type of immediate communication through visual language. In his " Biennale Eclatée " ( Exploded Biennale) series Raymond Hains uses in ahalf-poetical, half-critical way the graphic material (catalogues, posters) of previous Biennales (1964-68). The Seven Object of Alin Jacquet, three-dimensional symbols, can be seen as the achievement of a long meditative process, centered upn the essential signifiance of the human condition. The work of the young and talented Bertrand Lavier reveals a sharp analyst of visual perception. Jean-Pierre Raynaud's environmental strcture in ceramics, " Carrelage ", appears as part of his house inb the Paris surbubs moved to Venice. Jean-Michel Sanejouand has given a planatary dimension to his maps of " organized spaces ".

The collectif d'Art Sociologique " publishes the third Manifesto of the Movement on this occasion. Herve Fischer, Fred Forest, and Jean-Paul Thenot are using the well-know " translumination " proces of Contenotte for their own " Cultural Implosion Devices.

Pierre Restany 1976

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