Everyday I Write The Book.

Modified Remington Standard typewriter.

© Eddy Gabriel

You Are Here. (For the lost souls amongst us.)

"You are here" sticker variations

Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo, Japan

Tolyo, Japan

Tokyo, Japan

At the "Philosopher's path" in Kyoto, Japan 

At the "Philosopher's path" in Kyoto, Japan 

Kassel, Germany

Kassel, Germany

Kassel, Germany

Shanghai, China

Vinegar(t) ( A bottle for M.B.)

Vin Aigre Château des Aigles

A bottle containing not a manuscript, but a print on vinyl of the review of the Marcel Broodthaers retrospective show at the Museum Of Modern Art in New York as published in the Financial Times on march 17th, 2016.

"To piss vinegar" is a popular expression aptly describing the tone this review was set in.
https://www.ft.com/content/c3e0f3e8-da1c-11e5-a72f-1e7744c66818

Pisse-Vinaigre, Azijnpisser

I was very happy to be able to hand over a bottle to Broodthaers' widow Maria Gilissen years later, 

in 2024, and to learn that she "got" the joke and was happy with the gift.

© Eddy Gabriel
"Chez le droguiste op den hoek"

© Eddy Gabriel
© Rocky Witzenstein

Weight Of The World (Atlas)

Atlas.

A page from an old yoga manual. A matter of perspective.

Calling the ghost of James Lee Byars.

© Eddy Gabriel ©Rocky Witzenstein

Above the two versions of stickers posted around in Japan in the summer of 2017.

Dispersed mainly in the streets of Kyoto and Kanazawa - the "Gold leaf city"-, two cities crucial in the  development of the esthetic of James Lee Byars. 

Kyoto, Japan

Kyoto, Japan

Kyoto, Japan

Kyoto, Japan

Kanazawa, Japan ( outside the gold leaf shop )

Kanazawa, Japan

Nagoya, Japan

National Art enter, Tokyo, Japan

National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan

Also some stickers have been posted in Antwerp, Belgium, where Byars had a strong connection and in Kassel, Germany, where he staged a performance on the frieze of the Fridericanum during Documenta 5 in 1972.

Kassel, Germany  

Kassel, Germany

Kassel, Germany

Antwerp, A379089 

Antwerp, Wide White Space 

Antwerp, Wide White Space 

The inspiration for these stickers can be found here:
http://ubu.com/film/byars_world-question.html

And here: http://www.belgiumishappening.net/home/events/1969/event367-1969-10-05

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-james-lee-byars-1256727.html

The Ghost Of James Lee Byars. Byars in Kyoto. Byars in Kassel. Byars in Antwerp.

Do you know the Musselman?

52 anagrams of "Marcel Broodthaers".

One for every year of his short life.

A version with sound - the dutch nursery rhyme "Do you know the musselman?" - is here:

© Eddy Gabriel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOysCvdHY1Y&t=3s

Anagrammes, Anagrams, Anagrammen,

Marcel Broodthaers, Marcel Pain Anus.

Tea Time ( That's the way the cookie crumbles )

A Belgian cookies manufacturer has a tradition of printing reproductions of Magritte paintings on the lids of their cookie tins.

I thought about a series of  provocative images, subverting the underlying idea of a cozy moment with a cup of coffee or tea and a cookie to go with it,  turning "tea time" into a confrontational event.

The reassuring public announcement loop

In case you feel a little insecure:

https://soundcloud.com/blurtstuff/the-reassuring-announcement-loop

A message to you, Rudie (Led Ticker Art)

© Eddy Gabriel

Help Yourself

No Conceptual Art (Assisted Readymade)

No Conceptual art

© eddy gabriel

© eddy gabriel

The original sign in London.

Genk, Belgium

Kyoto, Japan

Kyoto, Japan

Shanghai, China ( in front of the Rockbund Art Museum )

When The Moon Waxed Red

The soundtrack for "When The Moon Waxed Red"

When The Moon Waxed Red

More info on the piece here:
http://www.shangliezhou.org/02_project_fr.html

The times they have-a-changed.

50 years ago, on september the 25th,  the first "Happening" took place in Antwerp.

50 years later, on september the 25th,  nothing happened in Antwerp.

Art's Birthday 2015

The people at Plank Tone organized a fold-a-hat competition to celebrate Art's 1.000.052nd birthday.

The first prize being a small golden hat.

I gave it a go and started playing with the words, ending up with a series of anagrams on the phrase "Art's Birthday 2015". Then Marcel Duchamp's hat rack sprang up in my mind, just begging to be married to Robert Filliou's paper hats. And thus the winner was born.

I made some more variations too:

And with the recent commotion surrounding Luc Tuymans and Katrijn Van Giel about plagiarism 

I could not resist this spoof:

A Legal Pastiche