Dado – Audio documents
Messages
Messages left by Dado on the webmaster’s answerphone regarding their collaboration. (In French)
June 19, 2008
Dado comments on the photograph of his mother and grandfather chosen for the biographical timeline. He also evokes the choice of the links to Géricault’s The Severed Heads at to the National Museum of Fine Art at Stockholm (on the page for Collateral Damage) and to Van Eyck’s Last Judgement (in the piece by Alice Bellony-Rewald). Lastly, he refers the Portrait of an Old Man and a Young Boy by Ghirlandaio in the Louvre Museum, and the drawing of the same old man in the National Museum of Fine Art in Stockholm.
August 26, 2008
Dado reads an extract from an article on the Slavs in an old edition of a Larousse he wants reproduced on the Collateral Damage page.
September 18, 2008 at 11h55
Dado speaks about his 1954 picture Adam and Eve, taking the opportunity of making a profession of Darwinist faith. Dado also reads an extract from the Sickness unto Death by Kierkegaard:
« Pour rendre la chose par une image, supposez une coquille échappant à un auteur, une coquille douée de conscience – qui n’en serait peut-être pas une au fond, mais, à tout prendre de très haut, un trait intégrant de l’ensemble – et qu’en révolte alors contre l’auteur elle lui défende par haine de la corriger et lui jette, dans un défi absurde : non ! Tu ne me bifferas pas, je resterai comme un témoin contre toi, comme un témoin que tu n’es qu’un piètre auteur ! »
(“To explain by an image, suppose a shell escaping from a creator, a shell gifted with consciousness – that at bottom might perhaps not really be one, but, to take things from a great height, is an integral feature of the whole – and then rebelling against its creator, in its hatred forbids him to punish it, barking out the absurd challenge. ‘No! You will not eliminate me, I will remain here as a witness against you, as a witness to what a rotten creator you are!’”)
He concludes by referring to Emil Cioran’s Précis de décomposition.
September 18, 2008 at 12h19
Dado talks about the title of his pictiure of 1955 The End of the World, inspired by a phrase by the Montenegrin poet Aleksandar Leso Ivanovć: “Each death is an end of the world.”
October 8, 2008
Dado lists new works for his Imaginary Museum:
- → St. Sebastian by Pietro Perugino at the National Museum of Fine Art in Stockholm
- → The Golden Age by Lucas Cranach the Elder at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo
- → The Drunkeness of Noah by Giovani Bellini in the Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie, Besançon, France
- → Nymph at the Spring by Lucas Cranach in the Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie, Besançon, France
- → Self-portrait in Spectacles and The Junta of the Philippines by Francisco de Goya at the Musée, Castres, France
- → Head of a Stag Transpierced by an Arrow by Albrecht Dürer in the National Library of France (BNF)
- → The Battle between the Lapiths and the Centaurs by Piero de Cosimo at the National Gallery, London
- → The Harvest by Brueghel in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
November 8, 2008
Dado refers to still more paintings to go in his Imaginary Museum:
- → Bitch Nursing her Pups by Jean-Baptiste Oudry in the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Narbonne, France
- → Portrait of a Man by Jean-Baptiste Greuze in the Musée National Magnin, Dijon, France
- → The Emperor Augustus and the Sibyl of Tibur by Konrad Witz at Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, France
- → The Conversion of St. Augustine by Fra Angelico at the Musée des Beaux-Arts Thomas Henry, Cherbourg, France
February 9, 2009
Message left by Dado from his mobile telephone from the intensive care unit where he was hospitalized. Dado plans to put on the website the drawings he made on paper hankerchiefs at the hospital.
