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17:30 Introduction by the artists

RE-presentation of interactive student works from the "100xMB" seminar class on the artist's question "What to do to make love? "

"Moi Aussi, je me suis demandé si je ne pouvais pas vendre quelque chose et réussir dans la vie. Cela fait un moment déjà que je ne suis bon à rien. Je suis âgé de quarante ans ... [...]"

This is what the Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers (1924-1976) wrote in 1964 in the invitation to his first solo exhibition: "I, too, asked myself whether I could not sell something and be successful in life. I hadn't been good for anything for some time. I am forty years old ... [...]". He showed objects in the exhibition. These included fifty unsold copies of his last book of poetry, Pense-Bête (1964), which were transformed into a plaster object.

In 2024, Pense-Bête will be 60 years old, Broodthaers 100 years old and the HGB library 150 years old. An opportunity to celebrate together: a deceased artist who made and buried books, with the library of the Academy of Visual Arts!

The students of the seminar "100xMB or 'What to do to make love?", supervised by Michal B. Ron, are "also" asking themselves whether they can show "something" new about Broodthaers and "succeed" in the seminar. Does showing Marcel Broodthaers mean de-plastering or over-plastering books? In the field of tension between IMITATION COPY COPY ORIGINAL | IMITATION FALSE COPY ORIGINAL, the students will present their further results in a second part on 24 October 2024.

>>> The event is part of the annual programme for the 150th anniversary of the HGB Library. More information...