ORSON WELLES INTERVIEWS ISIDORE ISOU
Isidore Isou (1925, Botosani, Romania – 2007, Paris), the ingenious Romanian poet, artist, economist, novelist, film-maker, choreographer and theoretician, created in 1945 the last avant-garde movement to attempt to overthrow everything – *Lettrism*, a movement that would embrace personalities as diverse as Gabriel Pomerand, Maurice Lemaître, Gil J Wolman and Guy Debord. Isou is the author of a huge body of work centered on the act of creation, for which he proposed a method, *Creatics,* which is a systematic approach to understanding and grasping the mechanics of creation.
In connection with the exhibition, the Romanian Cultural Institute of Stockholm is publishing a unique book on Isou’s *hypergraphic novels*, coordinated by Frédéric Acquaviva, Broutin, Maurice Lemaître, Cosana Nicolae Eram, Jonas (J) Magnusson, Roland Sabatier, as well as reproductions of selected plates and texts by Isidore Isou. The release of the publication will take place at the Romanian Cultural Institute of Stockholm on April 12. For information about the distribution of the book, please visit: www.rkis.se <http://www.icr.ro/katalog_isidore_isou>.
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