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The Big Pink Head

The Big Pink Head

About Me

Let's try to explain things a bit, but I'm not the best person ever when it comes to words.It all started in a basement. It's not the story of a basement though. I just decided in 1999 to paint systematically human faces. Everyday I had to paint at least one face, a work in progress to use a pompous word. Every week I was changing of character, of way of painting. I made up strict rules about that production, followed them properly. They became a part of my life.After a year I had hundred of paintings, of painted sculptures as well and just decided to open (legally or not) my neighbours basement and to fill it with my production. And every week I was adding more things. It became all so fragile then: it was under my neighbours control, they just had to need something downstairs to find out my little secret. Then I started squatting stairs, abandoned last floors of buildingsand to live with the idea that someone was maybe destroying it all when I was sleeping, eating, drinking.But nothing was happening, off course people found out what I was doing but they didn't destroy it, they took what they needed in the basement and left my things the way they were. So I though about Hegel and his theory about the end of the art, about the fact that music was an higher form of art than paints and sculptures. And I decided to fuck it all, to make music to bring people to my production to put it in danger. It's very vulgar version of Hegel's theory as you can see. It just gave me the idea I didn't follow his precepts religiously. It was in may 2001.You go home during the night and you here music in the basement it probably disturb you a bit more than all the faces. The highest art killing the lowest one. Sounded nice. And it happened. People got upset and I eventually had to start cleaning the places I had taken away. In June 2001, they opened that deserted silo in Montreal as huge juke box. I downloaded my music there. Since my tunes are randomly played for nobody, absurdly in an empty silo. It keeps me busy to think about it when Im insomniac : how many times have I been played in 5 years now. On one of them I was singing an opera on another I was brushing my teethIn 2002, when I came back from Spain where I had moved a year before, my last installation had been destroyed. It was over. The only things left about what happened in three years were videos, photos and music. When Im teaching French to foreigners I always use a trick to help them remembering when to use the ^ that accent that doesnt exist in most of the languages. I made up a story for a child : French are murderers they killed shit loads of s inside words like hôpital, genêt. And the ^ is just the ghost of the s that is haunting the letter that killed it. To the English I say forest became forêt after a slaughter, to the Catalan hostal that became hôtel for the same reason, to the German fenster/fenêtre.This is what this my space about, I just the soul of all this things that I did before sending them to the lions of a roman circus. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Pastels myspace layout
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Member Since: 8/21/2006
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Influences: SQÜRL Brigitte Fontaine - Sir Alice - Chicks on speed - Peaches - Dragibus - Death in Vegas - Stina Nordenstam - Coco Rosie - Jolie Holland - Blonde Redhead - the two Cats (Power and Stevens) Devendra Banhart - Sigur Ros - Beth Orton - Sonic Youth - Hole - Nirvana - PJ Harvey - Otep - Marianne Faithfull - Leonard Cohen - Nina Simone - Billie Holiday - Patty Smith - Depeche Mode - Janis Joplin - Jeff Buckley - Tori Amos - Madrugada - Tatiana Sauvage - The Knife - The Kills (new band with a "K"... let's say The...Kooks, The Kinks and The Killers, though it's not so true) Dr Octagon - DJ Cam - DJ Food - DJ Krush - Q Bert - Lynn Breedlove - KD Lang - Brassens - Léo Ferré - Gainsbourg - Bénabar - Les VRP - Aznavour - Renaud - Clarika - Berthe Sylva - Fréhel - Reggiani - Juliette (celle du Festin) Annette Messager - Toni Grand - Mona Hatoum - Ilya Jossifovich Kabakov ( pour "L'homme qui s'est envolé dans l'espace depuis son appartement) - Jean Dubuffet (pour le "Jardin d'hiver")Get Your Own! | View Slideshow
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My Blog

History : about Korean women (no the easiest to read. You couldn't say that you didn't know)

Here is the message that a the friend of a friend send:   "Anyway, more about the day to day tomorrow. Today's a bit serious. Think I may have finally found something worthwhile that I want...
Posted by The Big Pink Head on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 05:05:00 PST

someone used my TBPH identity.

lately someone has been using my acount to insult my friends...try to remember that i'm an extremly rude person. what is said by those people is slightly vulgar but doesn't reach my level at all : so ...
Posted by The Big Pink Head on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:25:00 PST

Personnal stamps

stamps i did stamps (they are real stamps, they work in France) i receive the ones where I smoke exactly the day they made that law against cigarettes in France, perfect timing isn't it?  ...
Posted by The Big Pink Head on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:26:00 PST

Stamps smoke


Posted by The Big Pink Head on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:27:00 PST

Jan Svankmajer

just because he is great. No! alice is not just a movie of woody allen!
Posted by The Big Pink Head on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:00:00 PST

snow flakes

hi thanks for telling me that things i do are unic it's very kind of you but remember that snow flakes are unic, certainly not humans nore what they do. bitterly yours ; )
Posted by The Big Pink Head on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:56:00 PST

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l272/johaland/devoirsdefem memoderne.jpg

vous ne revez pas
Posted by The Big Pink Head on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 04:01:00 PST

it's in french if your a french woman just read it

je l'ai enregistré en ligne, non vous ne revez pas   http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l272/johaland/devoirsdefem memoderne.jpg...
Posted by The Big Pink Head on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 04:00:00 PST

Ah! ben alors!

thanks for your nice messages about my "layout" and my avatar but don't expect to find it on the web. i needed a book end (just one) for my shelf. Books were constantly fallin...
Posted by The Big Pink Head on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 03:29:00 PST

la la la : it's a joke!!

Jesus!  Come on everybody, calm down it's all about circus and fake drama! i don't kidnap dolls in young girls' rooms!  
Posted by The Big Pink Head on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:16:00 PST