Paris remake, 1956. Art Autre Gallery Stadler
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Coetzee, Christo
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Department of the University of Pretoria Art
Abstract
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In 1955 Coetzee joined the Stadler Stable,
an avant-garde art group in Paris. The
owner of Stadler Gallery, Rodolphe Stadler
(1927-2009) saw great merit in avant-garde
art and exhibited works of several
artists of this type of genre. A year later in
1956, Coetzee painted a typewriter simply
titled 'Art Autre', (named after Michel
Tapié de Céleyran's 1952 book title, Un Art
Autre) and exhibited it at his solo
exhibition at the Stadler Gallery in 1961.
When he exhibited at the Randse
Afrikaanse Universiteit in Johannesburg
during 1987, Coetzee could not find the
original typewriter and thus recreated it.
Other well-known Pop artists such as
Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) and
Claes Oldenburg (1929- ) copied Coetzee's
non-traditional example and created
similar well-known typewriters in the
1960s.
Keywords
Avant-garde art