Hôtel Windsor - Hotel Nice
Room 65: Ben
Biography
1. Biographers are the ego and ego is what I want to change.
2. I so wanted to be the only artist to have no biography.
3. Ben, born July 18, 1935 no more no less brilliant than another.
4. I have indigestion biographies, dates, signatures and especially myself.
5. A biography is a shame ...
6. Ben saw Ben. Originality 7 / 20, Franchise 17/20, Virility 18/20, Humour10/20, physical beauty 13/20, Intelligence 14/20, Ambition 15/20, Will 7 / 20, Good Sense 7 / 20.
Room 79: Le Gac
I met Redolfi at the Catherine lssert exhibition gallery in St. Paul de Vence, in the autumn. Among some rare accointances, he was probably speaking for a while when a detail thrown into the conversation made me attentive.
complete freedom to make one work of art in one of the rooms of the Windsor Hotel from which he was the happy owner.
Enlightenment came to me with the white and washing blue Matisse. For the patriarch, the room was very important at the end of his life.
Room 40: Hains
Who will say today is that Raymond Hains, « I’Hains saisissable, I’Hains stable, I' Hains supportable, I' Hains satisfait », as he was called by his friend Pierre Restany," Raymond I'abstrait "as he was nicknamed by Guy Debord, or « I' asticoteur de la critique» as he called himself in the early sixties? One day, nevertheless, we shall have to return to Cesar what belongs to Cesar and to Hains what he deserves, that is, among other things, the incredible power to memorize and interconnect with words and objects which go with them.
Room 45: Stokker
NO MAN 'S TIME
I am a beauty specialist. I set myself a program:
pursuing happiness and friendship in my Works. Thus, I stand against irony and cynicism. I do not know what interest I have for love. Same as everyone I guess. I recall the pleasant things, friendship and love. I do not know what is my motivation. This may well be frustrating.
Room 57: Parmiggiani
Caro Bernard
26.1O .2002
Lei mi chiede una nota per le camere d’oro che insieme abbiamo pensato per
L’Hôtel Windsor.
Dico insieme perché fu lei a ricordarmi in alto luogo, un’altra mia opera,
realizzata dentro un ambiente delle pareti d’oro.
E appunto da quel ricordo che viene la Camera d’oro di Nizza.
Un cubo d’oro, una lampada, un letto.
Hôtel Windsor - Hotel Nice