[JEANSELLEM VIEWER] — NEW ETER 9-28.03.1973 Roberto Altmann Paul-Armand Gette Bernard Heidsieck Françoise Janicot Maggy Mauritz Poul Skelbye — Categories: visual, press — Keywords: Galerie S:t Petri, Jean Sellem, archive — Category: visual — Roberto AltmannPaul-Armand GetteBernard HeidsieckFrançoise JanicotMaggy MauritzPoul SkelbyeThey do not form a group, although they sometimes take part in the same events. The only line that brings them together, as here, is the non-conformism that characterizes their activity.Roberto Altmann — painter, engraver, draughtsman, perfectly mastering his media in order to reveal to us his “hypergraphies” or comic strips, about which the least that can be said is that they are situated well outside our world.Paul-Armand Gette — neglecting coloured notations, he prefers thermal notations, using methods borrowed from the scientific field, but shifted elsewhere.Bernard Heidsieck — poet (tape recorder, sound tapes, recordings), but also series of text-collages: “les foules” and “les machines à mots”.Françoise Janicot — painter working mainly with photography, fascinated by hidden things, hiding herself or hiding her drawings (hidden drawings).Maggy Mauritz — painter exploring signs and textures, also engraving them, showing them sparingly, which makes their discovery difficult and her work rare.Poul Skelbye — who calls himself a classical painter and who offers us, in the form of plans or projects, a very precise vision of his world or of what ours might be; here there are no delirious anticipations, but a supra-reality — where the trees are mechanized but perfectly lifelike, where the earth is normally ploughed beneath a normal sky whose clouds are striped, and where women from another century are trapped in display cases coming from some unknown museum.NEW ETER — — — Category: visual — Roberto AltmannPaul-Armand GetteBernard HeidsieckFrançoise JanicotMaggy MauritzPoul Skelbye... do not form a group, although they sometimes appear together. The only trait they share, as in the experimental art journal New Eter, is non-conformism.Roberto Altmann — painter, engraver, draughtsman — has complete command of his media in order to make us discover his “hypergraphies” or drawn strips. It can be said without exaggeration that these lie entirely outside our world.Paul-Armand Gette — does not concern himself with colour effects but prefers to record temperature variations. He uses methods borrowed from the scientific field, but applies them differently.Bernard Heidsieck — a poet who works with tape recorders, sound tapes and recordings, and also with text-collage series: “les foules” (crowds) and “machines à mots” (word machines).Françoise Janicot — painter who above all photographs. She is fascinated by hidden things, conceals herself or her drawings (dessins cachés).Maggy Mauritz — painter who explores signs and fibres and also engraves them.Poul Skelbye — shows us a very precise vision of his world in the form of plans or projects. Here the bewildering foreground is contrasted with a surreal reality, where the trees are mechanically but correctly rendered, where the earth usually lies ploughed beneath a natural sky whose clouds are striped, where women from another century are shut inside a display case brought here from some museum.NEW ETER — — — Category: press — <p>Drafts of the Press Releases</p> — — — Paris, 24 March 1973Dear friends,I spoke with Françoise Janicot, who is interested in exhibiting for three weeks in the autumn. She will send you documentation about her work.Roualdès (the one who works with SOS) will prepare something for you as well.Roberto Altmann (and his magazine Apeiros) seems interested in one week, but he can only fix the date according to the exhibition he is going to do in Södertälje.As for me, I confirm the installation that I will do in the summer, together with the publication of an issue of NEW ETER.I hope everything is going well.Warm regards to you,Paul-Armand Gette — February 73Paul GetteDear Paul,(I have pain in my hand,I can no longer typeon the machine (illegible))I sent you from Vaduz 4 photographs which constitute my participation in the Lund exhibition.Here are the references for this work:title: discovery of asphaltauthor: Roberto Altmanndate: 1973nature: 4 photographs 30 × 24 cm,numbered on the back from 1 to 4,representing the successive stagesof the “discovery”.axiom: as one makes one’s vision of reality more precise, “it” becomes blurred.Best wishes,P. Roberto (illegible) — — — — — — — —