L’amoureux cosmique, 1989
Book, 21.6 x 14 cm, 128 p, language: French, publisher: Éditions du Boréal, ISBN: 9782890522954.
Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. B 2026/510).
Literary synopsis
A light-speed novella, a love poem in prose, a cybernetic song in which sidereal club ogres devour their favourite dancers. Julio, the cosmic lover, runs on volcanos into the night as he waits for the new millennium. He is paranoid, no doubt, but intends to laugh.
Relation of the novel to the artist’s practice
L’amoureux Cosmique accompanied the objects and images that Eric Simon was producing at the time. Part of a larger narrative, L’amoureux Cosmique was adapted for theatre by Caroline Caza in 1990 and performed at Le Studio d’essai Claude-Gauvreau in Montréal. In general, writing offers the author another approach to the production of images.
Authorship: Artist Author.
Creative Strategy: Artwork-Novel Parallel Lives.
Genre: Automatic Writing, Plain Fiction, Prose poetry.
Publishing: Publishing House.
Theme: Desire, Ecstasy, Illness, Love, Mental Illness, Play.
Media
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>Lithography, 38 x 38 cm, 1984
>Acrylic on canvas, 1m50 x 1m78, 1987
>Papier mâché and mixed media, 4m50 x 2m45 x 1m95, 1988
>Papier mâché and mixed media, 2m80 x 1m95 x 1m80, 1988
>Installation view of exhibition presented at Clark Gallery in Montreal, 1991
Artist
> Eric Simon.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Ensemble: The Artist's Novel.