Jean-Jacques Lebel

Jean-Jacques Lebel was born in Paris in 1936. He is known primarily for his work as an artist and a writer. He is the son of Robert Lebel, art critic and friend of Marcel Duchamp. Lebel had his first exhibition in 1955 at Galleria Numero (Florence, Italy). After a brief period of time with Surrealists, Lebel exhibited in Milan and Paris, and then went on to exhibit at various museums and galeries around the world. In 1960, Jean-Jacques Lebel oversaw and partook in the first European Happening (L'enterrement de la Chose, Venice). In 1968, He took part in the activities of "Mouvement du 22-mars," followed by "Noir et Rouge" (an anarchist group), and the Socialist splinter group "Informations et Correspondences Ouvrières." Lebel also followed the philosophical teachings of Gilels Deleuze at "Faculty de Vincennes." Lebel published the first critical essay in French on the Happening movements throughout the world. After this, he produced over seventy Happenings, performances and actions on numerous continents, along with his pictorial, poetic and political work. In the 1960s, Lebel translated and published various work by William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gregory Corso. In 2001 and 2002 he exhibited "Manifestation Itinérante," "Reliquaire pour un culte de Vénus." He regulary collaborated with artist and writer Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux.

He continues to work in France today.

Jean-Jacques Lebel (born 1936) is a French painter, artist, and scholar.

Bibliography

*Jean-Jacques Lebel: des années cinquante aux années quatre-vingt-dix, Mazzotta, Milano, 1991, 78 p., ill., colour, b&w.
*Jean-Jacques Lebel: Retour d'exil. Peintures, dessins, collages 1954-1988, Galerie 1900/2000, Paris, 1988.
*Blistène, Bernard: Jean-Jacques Lebel. Una intervista. Jean-Jacques Lebel. An Interview, in: "FLUXUS" Flash Art, No. 84-85, 1978 October- November, 57-63.
*Faye, Jean Pierre - Jean-Jacques Lebel (eds.): Polyphonix, Change, No. 42 (special issue dedicated to Polyphonix 5), 1983, 168 p., ill., b&w.
*Félix Guattari: Jean-Jacques Lebel - Maler der Transversalität. Jean-Jacques Lebel - Painter of Transversality, in: Todoroff, Uli - Sophie Haaser (eds.): Jean-Jacques Lebel. Builder, Skulpturen, Installationen, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Wien, 1998. 35-40.
*Hegyi Dóra: Jean-Jacques Lebel. Kortárs Mûvészeti Múzeum Ludwig Múzeum Budapest. 1998. április 2 - május 10, in: Jump magazin, No. 1, 1998. 36.
*Hegyi Dóra (ed.): Jean-Jacques Lebel, Ludwig Kortárs Mûvészeti Múzeum-Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest, 1998.
*Labelle-Rojoux, Arnaud (ed.): Entretien avec Jean-Jacques Lebel, in: Loisy, Jean de (ed.): Hors limites. L'art et la vie 1952-1994, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1994, 109-115.
*Lebel, Jean-Jacques: D'une Biennale (1960) à l'autre (1990), in: Bonito Oliva, Achille - Gabriella.
*De Mila - Claudio Cerritelli (eds.): Ubi fluxus ibi motus 1990-1962, Mazzotta, Milano, 1990, 75-79.
*Lebel, Jean-Jacques: De quoi il s'agit, Édition privée réservée aux amis, 1998.
*Lebel, Jean-Jacques: Déchirex, in: Tolvaly Ernô - Lengyel András (eds.): Kortárs Képzômûvészeti Szöveggyûjtemény, A & E '93 Kiadó, 1992, 84-85.
*Lebel, Jean-Jacques: Ginsberg/Flash/Ginsberg. Flash/Ginsberg/Flash, Édition privée réservée aux amis, 1997.
*Lebel, Jean-Jacques: Happenings d'une bastille, l'autre, in: Dreyfus, Charles (ed.): Happenings & Fluxus, Galerie 1900-2000 - Galerie du Genie - Galerie de Poche, Paris, 1989, 7-15.
*Lebel, Jean-Jacques: Julien Blaine. Éloge de la multiplicité, in: Kanal Europe, No. 1, 1993, 37.
*Lebel, Jean-Jacques: Le happening, Les Lettres Nouvelles, Denoël, 1966, 89 p., ill., b&w.
*Lebel, Jean-Jacques: Légende, in: Bonito Oliva, Achille - Gabriella De Mila - Claudio Cerritelli (eds.): Ubi fluxus ibi motus 1990-1962, Mazzotta, Milano, 1990, 81-84.
*Lebel, Jean-Jacques: Megjegyzések a politikai utcaszínházról, in: Ungvári Tamás (szerk.): A dráma mûvészek ma. Írók, rendezôk, kritikusok korunk drámájáról, Gondolat, Budapest, 1974, 468-475.
*Lebel, Jean-Jacques: On the Necessity of Violation, in: Sandford, Mariellen R. (ed.): Happenings and Other Acts, Routledge, London - New York, 1995, 268-284.
*Lebel, Jean-Jacques: On the Necessity of Violation. Paris Postscript, May/June 1968, in: Stiles, Kristine - Peter Selz (eds.): Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art. A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings, University of California Press, Berkeley - Los Angeles - London, 1996, 718-722.

*Lebel, Jean-Jacques: Poésie directe des Happenings à Polyphonix. Entretiens avec Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux et quelques documents, Opus International Edition, Paris, 1994, 173 p., ill., b&w.

*Lebel, Jean-Jacques: Poésie en action, in: Janicot, Francoise (ed.): Poésie en Action, Loques - NèPE, Issy-les-Moulineaux, 1984, 5-15.

*Lebel, Jean-Jacques: Rue Rossini. Les rencontres Rossiniennes, Galleria di Franca Mancini, Pesaro, 1996, 47 p., ill., mainly colour.

*Lebel, Jean-Jacques: Umsonst (Bemerkungen zu den Happenings), in: Becker, Jürgen - Wolf Vostell (eds.): Happenings, Fluxus, Pop Art, Nouveau Réalisme. Eine Dokumentation, Rowohlt Verlag, Hamburg, 1965, 355-357.

*Lebel, Jean-Jacques: Vita Nuova, in: Kanal Europe, No. 1, 1993, 36.

*Lebel, Jean-Jacques - Daniel Pommerulle - Ferró - Tetsumi Kudo - Jocelyn de Noblé - Allan Zion - Claude Richard - Otto Hahn: Grundsätzliches zum Thema Happening. Für die Mitgleider des Workshops für freien Ausdruck, in: Becker, Jürgen - Wolf Vostell (eds.): Happenings, Fluxus, Pop Art, Nouveau Réalisme. Eine Dokumentation, Rowohlt Verlag, Hamburg, 1965, 357-360.

*Lebel, Jean-Jacques (ed.): Polyphonix 3. Festival International de Poesie Directe, American Center, Paris, 1981, 28 p., ill., b&w.

*Lebel, Jean-Jacques (ed.): Polyphonix 4. Festival International de Poesie Directe, Musique, Performance, Vidéo, American Center, Paris, 1982, 43 p., ill., b&w.

*Mahon, Alyce: Jean-Jacques Lebel és Marquis de Sade: a jólnevelt viselkedés megszegése. Outrages aux bonnes moeurs: Jean-Jacques Lebel and the Marquis de Sade, in: Hegyi Dóra (ed.): Jean- Jacques Lebel, Ludwig Kortárs Mûvészeti Múzeum-Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest, 1998, 18-45.

*Mahon, Alyce: Verstoss gegen die Guten Sitten: Jean-Jacques Lebel und der Marquis de Sade. Outrages aux bonnes moeurs: Jean-Jacques Lebel and the Marquis de Sade, in: Todoroff, Uli - Sophie Haaser (eds.): Jean-Jacques Lebel. Builder, Skulpturen, Installationen, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien, 1998, 71-112.

*Martel, Richard - Françoise Dugré: Art action - entrevues. Pierre Restany. Jean-Jacques Lebel. Dick Higgins. Charles Dreyfus. Esther Ferrer. Julien Blaine. Jacques Donguy. Danièle Roussel. Bruce Barber. Felipe Ehrenberg. Bartolomé Ferrando. Giovanni Fontana. Simon Herbert. Elisabeth Jappe. Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux. Charlemagne Palestine. Slavka Sverakova. Martha Wilson. Laszlo Beke. Veronica Diesen. Lukasz Guzek, in: [Art Action / Dick Higgins] Inter Art Actuel, No. 73, 1999 Spring-Summer, 8-29.

*Millet, Catherine: Jean-Jacques Lebel, az örök lázadó. Jean-Jacques Lebel Permanent Rebel, in: Hegyi Dóra (ed.): Jean- Jacques Lebel, Kortárs Mûvészeti Múzeum-Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest, 1998, 5-17.

*Stiles, Kristine: "'Beautiful, Jean-Jacques': Jean-Jacques Lebel's Affect and the Theories of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari", (Milano: Edizioni Gabriele Mazzotta, 1998): 7-30.

*Stiles, Kristine: “La Crise de l'avant-garde," and an “Interview with Jean-Jacques Lebel,” + - 0 [Brussels] 34 (October, 1981): 32-33, 35-36.

*Stiles, Kristine: “Jean-Jacques Lebel’s Phoenix and Ashes,” in Jean-Jacques Lebel (London: Mayor Gallery, 2003): 3-15.

*Todoroff, Uli - Sophie Haaser (eds.): Jean-Jacques Lebel. Builder, Skulpturen, Installationen, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Wien, 1998.