COMMEMOR, 1970/2003 12 black and white photographic collages mounted on plates each 70 x 100 cm Courtesy: Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
COMMEMOR, 1970/2003 12 black and white photographic collages mounted on plates each 70 x 100 cm Courtesy: Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
COMMEMOR, 1970/2003 12 black and white photographic collages mounted on plates each 70 x 100 cm Courtesy: Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
COMMEMOR, 1970/2003 12 black and white photographic collages mounted on plates each 70 x 100 cm Courtesy: Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
PROCLAMATION OF INTENT
In order to:
- seal the reconciliation of the nations of Europe through a single powerful act
- create a precedent that will spread one day to all the continents
- honour truly the memory of this century's war victims
- remind future generations of the futility and obscenity of nationalism
- decisively bring together European towns and villages
- transform the pompous, revengeful style history bequeathed us into a new and generous expression of our destiny
IT IS SOLEMNLY PROPOSED TO THE EUROPEAN PEOPLES THAT THEY BEGIN EXCHANGING THEIR RESPECTIVE WAR MEMORIALS
- To this end, the creation of a Joint Commission for the Exchange of War Memorials (COMMEMOR) is suggested, whose activities will be accompanied by meditation and rejoicing
AS FOR THESE COUNTRIES, WHICH NOWADAYS ARE THINKING OF GOING TO WAR, THEY COULD CONSIDER EXCHANGING THEIR WAR MEMORIALS BEFORE AND INSTEAD OF MAKING IT.
Robert Filliou