HAINS Raymond (1926-2005) - Lot 29

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HAINS Raymond (1926-2005) - Lot 29
HAINS Raymond (1926-2005) Untitled (Lombards) Torn poster Signed and dated 1974 lower right Dim. subject : 23 x 81 cm - Dim. frame : 34 x 96 cm Framed piece Provenance : private collection Note: Raymond Hains was in person that passage between life and art, which everyone always talks about, but which he authentically embodied. Raymond's life was exemplary. With the presence of art in his life, of art as a life strategy, he showed that the fields of the word, of the image, but also the previous or contemporary artistic works, were his privileged domain of investigation. It is here that Hains reminds us that art is in itself a subversion of codes, and that what should interest us first is our own way of living. He shows a flawless inventiveness throughout his various periods, all of high poetic intensity. Hains was also a magician, in the sense that Dalí, Burroughs or Brion Gysin spoke of art as magic. On the one hand, fixing ideas, determining anchor points, determining a topography. On the other hand, the optical question, the image, the color that we would be wrong to evacuate in a work like that of Raymond Hains. The colors printed on the posters present tones absent from the palette of the painters. "There is a combination of circumstances that are extremely bizarre. That's why I became a structuralist mustachian, a dialectician of truisms." Raymond Hains Raymond Hains constitutes in his own way an exhibition (in all the senses of the word) of a contemporary poetic life, a drift in the maze of the words, the images, the slips of direction. Under a playful, humorous appearance, Hains creates a system that enchants, amuses, challenges, between the situationist drift, the free association, where everything seems to emerge as if from a dream, from a hypnagogy, while everything is true. In this sense, Hains is always or again New Realist, generating a new reality, a unique artist who gives to see differently the real, his own, while suggesting that such a path exists in each of us, that each of us is called to live, reinterpret, reinvent his life. Marc Dachy, Langue de cheval et facteur temps, Actes Sud, 1998
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