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Les Yeux CIII CXXV / Parant, Jean-Luc ; Dubuffet J., 1976

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Identifier: CC-62392-47524

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The silkscreen print was done by Jean Dubuffet and the aquatints by Parant. The latter consist of two prints side by side on folded paper. The Parant prints are composed with small handdrawn 'o's equivalent to eyes. A critique of this book translated from French to English was found on the internet. "And this text enjoys without end, the words are tightened there as the hands are tightened to cherish and embrace the night: the signs are coupled with the collectable one to press the curves of the ground as the touching members link themselves with the reliefs of the darkness to dig the matter and to enjoy in its centre. It is the joy of the closed eyes, the deployment of the fingers in love with the invisible one. The words are tightened there as the eyes are tightened to link one the other and to be linked with the light: the signs are coupled between them and are projected in the fire of the sun as the members indicators amalgamate with the source of the glance so that is born the sight, amalgamate with the sphere burning at the end of the glance so that is born the visible one. It is the joy of the opened eyes, the unfolding of the eye in love with its double and the eyes in love with the visible one. And the words slip and blow in as without punctuation of the night at the day where the eyes slip and blow in without breathing, of the fingers spreading and etreignant the darkness with the eyes being held, etreignant and etreignant the light. Because if the bodies of the sight carry in them the pleasure, of their retractation to their deployment, a text on the eyes carries the coupling until in the same words and eyes: words penetrating the ground with the words penetrating and penetrating the sun, and of the eyes closed in the touching flesh with the eyes open in the conspicuous flesh. Like carrying the pleasure until sharp of itself in its crossing of the matter and fire, opacity and the transparency. To enjoy the first lines, the closed eyes, with the last lines, the opened eyes, intensely invisible with the visible one. If the male sex is tightened in contact with the sex female as the eyes project in contact with the sun it is because the eyes are a sex for fire and that fire is the sex of the eyes. The sun is always equal to the opened eyes, and the eyes open to be with the size of fire. If the men and the women do not see when their eyes are closed it is because the eyes which are under their eyelids are always too small to enter fire. Hardly they open them that their eyes inflate until reaching the volume of the sun in the sky. The eyes and the sun are of comparable nature that the two sexes between them. The eyes see fire as the male sex touches the sex female. If the eyes do not have that the sun for all other eyes it is because there are not other eyes for them. All the eyes are similar between them. The sun is contrary to the eyes and the eyes are contrary to the sun.If the sunlight gives the sight to the eyes of the men and the women, the sight of their eyes gives his light to the sun. As if the sun were the other eyes of their eyes, like the male or female sex is the other sex of the sex female or male of each one. If the sun were a sex, the eyes would be another which could be coupled with fire to give birth to from the infinitely large worlds. Like if, if there were not two sexes, the sex would not have that the ground for any other sex as the eyes have only the sun for all other eyes. If the man cannot couple himself with several women at the same time, the woman can it with several men at the same time. If it were enough that the sex female increases to be able to couple itself with the world, it would be enough that the male sex multiplies infinitely to be able to do as much of it. If the sex female several male sexes could enter, only one male sex would increase in vain inordinately there that there would be always one sex female with being able to penetrate. If with him only the sex of the woman could contain an infinity of sexes of men, it is because with him only it can contain the entire body.If with the hands we can touch only one thing at the same time and that with the eyes we can see an infinity of it, it is that the male sex leaves with the hands and the sex female of the eyes. As if the woman could enjoy an infinity of body at the same time, and the man of only one at the same time. The eyes are not projected to see, the eyes open immensely until being able to entirely contain the world which they see. Only the hands are tightened like a male sex to be able to touch the world. It would not be necessary that the hands increase, it would be necessary that they multiply. It would not be necessary that the eyes multiply, it would be necessary that they increase infinitely until being able to include the entire universe. If there is a sex which is tightened like hands, there is another which opens like eyes. If one touches for the night, the other sees for the day. Thus the ground turns so that they are coupled, or they are coupled so that the ground turns. If only one eye would suffice for all to wrap, an infinity of hands would still not reach that point. It would be necessary to be able to open wide the eyes until they fill up all the face of the men and the women, and who them face is nothing any more but eyes. As it would be necessary to be able to multiply their hands until they fill up all their body, and which it is nothing any more but hands. If their eyes are slits it is because they can only increase. If their hands are openwork fingers it is because they can only multiply.The men and the women could not have other eyes, but their eyes could be much larger and include all their face. They could not have larger hands, but an infinity of others which would deploy all their body. They could have ten hands as they have ten fingers, but they could not have more than two eyes as they do not have more than two sides in the right side and the left side of their body. The number two is the greatest possible number of the eyes. After "two" there is nothing any more. Two eyes equalize the infinite one. In them, we can enter the entire universe. Nothing is used for to count, to open the eyes is enough with the glance of the men and the women to count all that surrounds them. They count on their fingers but they cannot count on their eyes. The eyes can give them only one sum. If the men and the women count the closed eyes, they suddenly forget the number at which they arrived as soon as they open the eyes. The opening of their eyes can give them only one sum. As if the invisible one amounted on the fingers while the visible one is counted by opening the eye. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1976

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 soft cover book + unbound pages (letterpress) + print (silkscreen) + 6 prints (aquatints, folded) + print (aquatint, triptych) + leaflet (168 pages)) ; 22.5 x 14.7 x 3.6 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

box shelf

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

General

Published: Montpellier, France : Fata Morgana. Signed by: J[ean] D[ubuffet] 75 (l.r.- silkscreen print); JL Parant (b.c.- triptych); JL Parant (l.r.- prints). Nationality of creator: French. General: 15 copies of 550 total copies. About 9 number copy. General: Added by: CONV; updated by: MARVIN.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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