JESUS CHRISTOS RASTAKUEROS

JESUS CHRISTOS RASTAKUEROS

Dada was born during the First World War, from a moral demand, from the deep feeling that man, as the central representation of spiritual creation, rests his supremacy on bankrupt concepts, on dead things, on goods acquired in an obscene way ( Tristan Tzara). "THE Jesus Christ Rastacueros it kind of sums up the dada philosophy. Peculiar lyricism, free associations, automatic writing in its infancy, mood for challenge, skepticism that reaches the limits of nihilism" (Michel Jarrety).
The present edition conveys Picabia's own typographical style as a Dadaist editor and the aesthetics of the magazine 391 which he had founded himself.

THE Francis Picabia (Paris, 1879 – 1953), friend of Marcel Duchamp and Guillaume Apollinaire, started with abstract painting, without joining any of the movements with which he successively flirted (Fobism, Futurism, Cubism, Orphism). From 1913 he began exhibiting in New York, where he quickly established himself as an avant-garde artist with the support of the photographer Alfred Stieglitz and the revue 291. As a tribute, he named 391 the subversive magazine that he published based in Barcelona. During the war, he began to write himself. In 1918, she met Tristan Tzara in Zurich. From 1919, they bring the Dadaist rebellion to Paris, but in essence they lay the foundations of Surrealism. In 1921 the "Christopher Columbus of art" renounces Parisian Dada as serious and divides the rest of his life between painting pursuits, secular events, dolce vita on the Cote d'Azur and gallery exhibitions that widen his audience.