Marcel Broodthaers (1924-76)
Le Corbeau et le Renard
(1968)
Marcel Broodthaers (January 28, 1924 – January 28, 1976) was a Belgian poet, filmmaker and artist with a highly literate and often witty approach to creating art works.
1964, for his first exhibition, he wrote a famous preface for the exhibition catalogue;
\"I, too, wondered whether I could not sell something and succeed in life. For some time I had been no good at anything. I am forty years old... Finally the idea of inventing something insincere finally crossed my mind and I set to work straightaway. At the end of three months I showed what I had produced to Philippe Edouard Toussaint, the owner of the Galerie St Laurent. \'But it is art\' he said \'and I will willingly exhibit all of it.\' \'Agreed\' I replied. If I sell something, he takes 30%. It seems these are the usual conditions, some galleries take 75%. What is it? In fact it is objects.\" Broodthaers, 1964[2]
