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Michel Journiac (1935-1995)
Hommage à Freud, constat critique d'une mythologie travestie, March 1972
Gelatin silver print on plywood
Signed, dated and numbered on the bottom right: "7/10", engraved on the support
Edition of 10
72 x 51 cm
Provenance:
- Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels
- Dotation Lefebvre-Vornic collection
Exhibition: Strasbourg, Musée de la Ville de Strasbourg, "Michel Journiac, Various authors", February 2004, similar work illustrated in the exhibition catalogue p.13
Note: - This work is referenced on the artist's website
- Michel Journiac created this work in March 1972, first as a mailing to the art world, mainly to art and literary critics (March - April 1972). He then presented the "Hommage à Freud" in a formica version for the "Piège pour un travesti" exhibition at the Galerie Stadler in June 1972.
The night of the vernissage, the artist invited Jean-Paul Casanova, alias Zuzy Grribitch, transformist from Chez Michou, to perform: disguised as Zarah Leander, he sang in a crowded gallery and in the middle of an impressive silence. In the same exhibition, Journiac presented the "La Sainte-Vierge", sculpture of the Holy Virgin with a phallus, "l'Hommage à Freud", creating an unsavoury oedipian theory with photographs of men disguised as Rita Hayworth, Greta Garbo ou Arletty
