Art Basel OVR Event: Jean Dupuy’s Lazy Art: Julia Robinson & Christian Xatrec

Art Basel Online Viewing Rooms Event⁠ Jean Dupuy’s Lazy Art: Julia Robinson & Christian Xatrec⁠ ⁠ A live conversation between Julia Robinson and Christian Xatrec, which will help position Jean Dupuy’s concept of Lazy Art in his multi faceted œuvre, and establish historical relations with the idea of lazyness, particularly in the work of Marcel Duchamp. ⁠ ⁠ “Jean Dupuy acknowledges the 1960 exhibition of Thanos Tsingos at the Quatre Saisons gallery in Paris as being at the origin of what he later called Lazy art. In the index of One, Two – his first monograph published in New York in 1981– he describes Lazy Art as “an art which consists of having the work done by a tool or by others…” (Christian Xatrec, 1999)⁠ ⁠ Jean Dupuy (1925) is a pioneer of the art and technology movement. In the 1970s, he curated collective performances with artists from Fluxus. He works in the fields of conceptual art, performance, painting, installations,
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