Broodthaers Society of America
December 17, 2015, found cinema section in the Koninklijk Atheneum, Léon Spilliaertstraat 31, Ostend. In "Project for a Film," (1948), Marcel Broodthaers writes: <i>School is out. The teacher stumbling along plunges into a bush.</i>
December 17, 2015, found cinema section in the Koninklijk Atheneum, Léon Spilliaertstraat 31, Ostend. In "Project for a Film," (1948), Marcel Broodthaers writes: School is out. The teacher stumbling along plunges into a bush.
Phillip van den Bossche
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OBJECT METAL SPIRIT
OBJECT METAL SPIRIT
OBJECT METAL SPIRIT

OPENING is the title of Marcel Broodthaers’ fourth Open letter, dated Ostend, 7 September, 1968, and first published in the section Musée, expositions, revolution et biographie imaginaire (named and edited by Isi Fiszman) in the publication Museum in motion? (1979).

There’s a sequence of words at the end of the page:

OBJECT METAL SPIRIT
OBJECT METAL SPIRIT
OBJECT METAL SPIRIT

In the original French version:

OBJET METAL ESPRIT
OBJET METAL ESPRIT
OBJET METAL ESPRIT

The line with 9 words (3x3) is typed 8 times.

In 1961, in the magazine Journal des Beaux Arts, Broodthaers starts his essay “Un poète en voyage… A LONDRES” with the sentence:

Ostend. The English are very interested in sand. Extraordinary continent.

North Sea. This mirror the trunk is to cross. Traveling aboard a wardrobe in the company of clothes. Unbearable passengers, you are neither birds nor fish. Maritime impression: nil. Collection of identical waves. Monotonous painting.


From the announcement for the book and the film A Voyage on the North Sea (London, 1974):

A book suggesting image as function. A book suggesting the text as function.

OBJECT METAL SPIRIT
OBJECT METAL SPIRIT
OBJECT METAL SPIRIT

In his text “Expérimental en ce sens” (Experimental in as much as) from 1967, Broodthaers wrote:

Exercise in poetic reading
related to classic cinematographic movement.


OBJECT METAL SPIRIT
OBJECT METAL SPIRIT
OBJECT METAL SPIRIT

Broodthaers signed his Open Ostend letter on behalf of one of the ministers of culture, his family name wrongly typed: BRODTHAERS

OSTENDE OUVERTURE OBJET

OSTEND OPENING OBJECT



PvdB
Director, Mu.ZEE, Ostend
08.02.16