About the exhibition
“As a high dignitary of the movement and a thurifer of Isou's thought, Maurice Lemaître explained to me one day that the idea of Lettrism was born, at the end of the war, from a desire to respond symbolically to the Biblical event of the Tower of Babel. It was no coincidence that Esperanto had enjoyed so much success after the war, he told me, before adding that this demonstrated a need to bring humanity together around a common language.
And Lettrism, according to him, responded to this need by proposing to create a repertoire of universal signs inspired by all the alphabets (hieroglyphic, Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic, Greek, Cyrillic, Latin, Chinese, Japanese...) and which goes beyond them.”
Patrice Trigano - Excerpt from La Promesse de l'art, Éditions du Canoë
Maurice Lemaître
Puzzle sentimental partiellement supertemporel, 1963
Photographs cut out on black Canson paper
35 x 44 cm
Signed and dated on the back
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Maurice Lemaître
Canailles IV (Visage), 1952-2013
Signed and numbered pigment print
60 x 50 cm
One of the 7 plates on baryta paper (310g) edition of 20 copies from 2013
Maurice Lemaître
Hommage à Clisthène série « Le libéralisme », 1987
Paint on canvas
61 x 50 cm
Signed, dated and tilted on the back, Le Libéralisme N° 10/20