Quelques séquences d’art sans talent

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“The Talentless Art Sequences consists of a series of clips and perfectly distressing antics. Jacques Lizène in the role of the Little Master of Liège, an artist of mediocrity and insignificance, follows a spot on the screen with his finger, flicks the target away, sings but we cannot hear him, constrains his body to stay in the frame of the image, forms a turd by squeezing a tube of color, waddles and disintegrates between two little naked women dancing at the edge of the screen, a feather slipped between the buttocks, ends up brandishing a flag white. Against the backdrop of a projection of a little woman waving her bare breasts, he then assumes the posture of a pathetic burlesque cook with a floury face cutting up his cucumber, his eggplant, his carrot with great slashes of a knife, not his penis, well... 's just like. Finally creates a lousy action-painting style painting by spitting on the camera lens. Jacques Lizène took a stand for art without talent in 1966, thus disqualifying his own works in order to cut off any attempt at criticism based on the idea of judgment, which he does throughout these sequences declaring them bad, to be redone , not sufficiently failed, uninteresting, insignificant, heartbreakingly infantilistic, inept, unjustifiable, inexpressive. Claiming the place of the clown, Lizène plays to the ego, affirming the presence of the artist, and constantly diluting herself. With a consummate sense of the provocative and the zany, he uses the numerous manipulations that punctuated the heroic times of video art, split-screens, overlays, color shift and thus takes the great hypnosis machine that will be television in reverse. . This one will not be mistaken. The film was produced by the RTBF Liège production center in 1979. It was planned to be broadcast by the program Vidéographie in March 1980, it was censored by the Ertébée hierarchy a few hours before its broadcast and would not be released. program of the show only a year later, in April 1981. Finally, note that some of these sequences refer to other works of the Little Master, Constrain the Body, Being your own tube of colors – painting with fecal matter, Shabby Music Hall and, of course, Vasectomy yippie”. (Source: Jean-Michel Botquin)

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