ANTI-PROCESS MANIFESTATION COLLECTIVE ORGANISEE PAR ALAIN JOUFFROY ET JEAN-JACQUES LABEL. 1960.

Paris: Galerie des Quatre Saisons, 1960
44.8 x 28 cm black on orange paper. Announcement poster/political tract for one of the three famous public protestations against the Algerian war, which took place in the form of artist exhibitions. The illustration on the poster is of a public execution by guillotine and beneath it a quotation by Marcel Duchamp: “Il faut abolir l’idee de jugement”. The exhibition included works by various surrealists and nouvelle realists including Victor Brauner, Bona de Mandiargues, Camille Bryen, Jorge Camacho, Cardenas, César, Bernard Dufour, Ferro (who was not called yet Erro), Oyvind Falhstrom, Wifredo Lam, Hundertwasser, Henri Michaux, Roberto Matta amongst others. Others (such as Dufrene) played music or read poetry. The poster also reproduces a political tract signed by many of the artists entitled: “Pour le droit de l’homme a disposer de lui-meme”. Folded but overall a very good example of an important political action.