NETTLE-CAMPAIGN
I have to make a very important announcement •
I have to make a very important announcement •
One can live happily without money •
One can live happily without money •
Be independent and self-sustaining •
Be independent and self-sustaining •
Don’t get exploited •
Don’t get exploited •
Painters coming to Paris to work creatively are threatened by many dangers •
Painters coming to Paris to work creatively are threatened by many dangers •
They are being subjugated •
They are being subjugated •
When they don’t have money, they have to prostitute themselves •
When they don’t have money, they have to prostitute themselves •
If they are women, they have to sleep with the dealers and critics •
If they are women, they have to sleep with the dealers and critics •
If they are young painters, they depend on being fostered by homosexuals •
If they are young painters, they depend on being fostered by homosexuals •
Or they must earn the money as unskilled workers •
Or they must earn the money as unskilled workers •
In order to get an exhibition, they have to sell themselves •
In order to get an exhibition, they have to sell themselves •
Some have to work on something else than painting, others have to depend on women,
or they have to make love to homosexual collectors, dealers, and critics •
Some have to work on something else than painting, others have to depend
on women, or they have to make love to homosexual collectors, dealers,
and critics •
Do you know, how simple it is to live without money?
Do you know, how simple it is to live without money?
All you have to do is eat stinging nettles •
All you have to do is eat stinging nettles •
One live off spinach prepared from stinging nettles •
One can live off spinach prepared from stinging nettles •
Stinging nettles grow everywhere •
Stinging nettles grow everywhere •
They are entirely free, free of any costs •
They cost nothing at all, they are entirely free •
These stinging nettles I found behind the Musée des colonies in St. Mandé •
These stinging nettles I found behind the Musée des colonies in St. Mandé •
They grow everywhere on the terrain vague •
They grow everywhere on the terrain vague •
Eat them!
Eat them!
Paris 1959. Manifesto, lectured in January 1960 at the Galerie Quatre Saisons on occasion of Alain Jouffroy's Anti-Proces. The original text is lost and was recontructed for the Paris exhibition catalogue of 1975. Published i.a. in: Catalogue of the world travelling museum exhibition, Paris, 1975, exhibition catalogue, Cologne 1980.
Published in:
Catalogue for the World Travelling Museum Exhibition, Paris, 1975, pp. 176-178 (French)
Catalogue for the World Travelling Museum Exhibition, Cologne, 1980, pp. 140-142 (German)
Schurian, Walter (ed.): Hundertwasser - Schöne Wege, Gedanken über Kunst und Leben. (Beautiful Paths - Thoughts on Art and Life) Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv), 1983, pp. 79-80 and ed. 2004 (Munich: Langen Müller Verlag), pp. 96-97 (German)
Grunenberg, Christoph und Becker, Astrid (ed.): Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Gegen den Strich. Werke 1949-1970, Exhibition catalogue for Kunsthalle Bremen. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2012, pp. 148-149 (German)