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Parry

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Jun 21, 2005, 12:10:37 AM6/21/05
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I've heard that surrealist parent Mimi Parent recently died. Born in
Canada, living in paris lately. Does anyone have any details?

-- Parry

GS

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Jun 21, 2005, 12:33:23 AM6/21/05
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"Parry" <pa...@keroOMITmail.com> wrote in message
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> I've heard that surrealist parent Mimi Parent recently died. Born in
> Canada, living in paris lately. Does anyone have any details?
>
> -- Parry
>

I could only find an obituary in French...
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3382,36-663300@51-663419,0.html

It says she died June 14 in Switzerland. She was 81.


Parry

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Jun 21, 2005, 1:39:23 AM6/21/05
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Thanks.

Here is a Google translation of the article:

Mimi Parent, surrealist artist

THE WORLD|17.06.05|14h25 • Updated 17.06.05|14h25

Canadian Mimi Parent has, appears of the last surrealism, died Tuesday
June 14 in Switzerland, at the 81 years age. She had been born with
City-Mount-Royal (Quebec), September 8, 1924.

After studies at the School of the fine arts of Montreal marked by its
rebellion against conservatism and the moral censure, it arrives to
Paris in October 1948, accompanied by her husband, the artist Jean
Benoît.

In 1955, his work I live with the shock marks a first rupture: to
painting, it adds objects, carrying out the first of its "tables
objects". Second rupture in 1959, by the intermediary of Paddle, the
girl of the poet, Mimi Parent and Jean Benoît meet André Breton. Soon,
they join the discussions and projects of the surrealist group, pass
part of the summer in company of Breton and agree to take part in the
exposition"EROS ", which must be held from December 1959 to February
1960 with the gallery Daniel Cordier.

For "EROS", Mimi Parent designs the Crypt of fetishism , together of
papered boxes of black fur where assemblies of itself are deposited, of
Breton and Meret Oppenheim. It is also the accomplice of Jean Benoît:
December 2, 1959, this one is the author and the actor of the Execution
of the will of the Marquis de Sade , ceremony which is achieved at the
romancière Joyce Mansour. Dressed up, carrying accessories which
symbolize Eros and Thanatos, Benoît registers with red iron letters SADE
on his centre, imitated at once by the Matta painter. This ceremony
establishes Mimi Parent and Jean Benoît in the center of the Parisian
surrealist group. Together, they take part in collective actions,
evenings with the cinema of art and test Ranelagh between 1964 and 1967,
with emblematic the exposition"L' absolute Deviation ", in 1965.

After the death of Breton in 1966 and the dissolution of the group in
1969, it develops its "tables objects" and its boxes reliquaires in a
spirit of accumulations Symbolists and baroques which prolongs that of
the Crypt of fetishism . Allusions to poetry, the music, the religions,
alchemy abound there, as much as the erotic and fantastic appearances.
The tone oscillates between humour - the Afternoon of small Freud or The
Rousseau Brothers ­ - and concern - ­ the Song of the She-wolf or the
Rape .

Some personal exposures and of many invitations to collective
demonstrations, "Fémininmasculin", in the Pompidou Center in 1995, or
"According to the antique", in the Louvre in 2001, maintained visible
its alive presence, before does not come time from the exposures on the
history of surrealism, in Paris, in London and, in 2004, with the
national Museum of the fine arts of Quebec for a retrospective homage.
One of its last works symbolizes the taste for the provocation: in 1996,
Mimi Parent manufactured Maîtresse , a whip whose two thin straps had
been replaced by two long braids of fair hair.

Philippe Dagen
Article published in the edition of the 18.06.05

Bill Schenley

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Jun 21, 2005, 2:12:07 AM6/21/05
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> > I've heard that surrealist parent Mimi Parent
> > recently died. Born in Canada, living in paris
> > lately. Does anyone have any details?

> I could only find an obituary in French...
>
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3382,36-663300@51-663419,0.html

Mimi Parent:
http://forum.psrabel.com/beitraege/parent/bilder/portait.jpg

http://www.zazie.at/SpecialEditions/JeanBenoit/00_Images/WithMimiParent_1960_2.jpg
(w/her husband, Jean Benoit)

And her work:
http://forum.psrabel.com/beitraege/parent/bilder/nacht.jpg

http://forum.psrabel.com/beitraege/parent/bilder/bild9.jpg

http://forum.psrabel.com/beitraege/parent/bilder/vorbeiflug.jpg

http://forum.psrabel.com/beitraege/parent/bilder/geschichte.jpg

http://forum.psrabel.com/beitraege/parent/bilder/arena.jpg

http://forum.psrabel.com/beitraege/parent/bilder/tage_und_naechte.jpg

http://forum.psrabel.com/beitraege/parent/bilder/eule.jpg

http://forum.psrabel.com/beitraege/parent/bilder/bild12.jpg

http://www.e-poke.dk/kierkegaard/parent-aux-oiseaux.jpg

http://www.artdaily.com/Fotos/galerias/208/MimiParent.jpg


Tony Dickson

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Jun 23, 2005, 5:43:55 PM6/23/05
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"Parry" <pa...@keroOMITmail.com> wrote

> Here is a Google translation of the article:
>
> Mimi Parent, surrealist artist
>

> THE WORLD|17.06.05|14h25 . Updated 17.06.05|14h25


>
> Canadian Mimi Parent has, appears of the last surrealism, died Tuesday
> June 14 in Switzerland, at the 81 years age. She had been born with
> City-Mount-Royal (Quebec), September 8, 1924.

There's something oddly appropriate about a Babelfish-esque translation of
the obituary of a surrealist artist.


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