Pierre Molinier

Gog et Magog

Vintage silver photomontage, 15,3 × 10,5 cm

1967 

Autoportrait devant le paravent (Self-Portrait in front of the screen)

Gelatin silver print, 17,6 × 12,4 cm

c. 1960 

Autoportrait ou l’homme au sabre (Self-Portrait or Man with Sabre)

Vintage gelatin silver print, 17,6 × 11,8 cm

c. 1960 

Mes jambes (My legs)

Gelatin silver print, 8,8 x 11,8 cm

c. 1966

Autoportrait devant l’esquisse de Oh ! Marie, mère de dieu (Self-portrait in Front of Oh ! Marie, mère de Dieu)

Gelatin silver print, 17,6 × 11,8 cm

1965 

L’éperon d’amour (The love spur)

Vintage silver photomontage, 16,3 × 9,5 cm

c. 1967 

Autoportrait aux côtés d’Amours (Self-Portrait in front of Amours)

Gelatin silver print, 17,8 × 12,4 cm

1966 

Amours (2) (Loves [2])

Pencil on paper, 27,2 × 20,8 cm

1966 

Incidente:

1951. Salon des Indépendants, Bordeaux.

1965. Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme, Paris.

2003. Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux.

Molinier’s work has been censored on other occasions. In 1951, Le grand combat was withdrawn from an exhibition in Bordeaux for being shameful. In 1965, André Breton refused to show Oh! Marie, mère de dieu in Paris, stating that it was irreverent and pornographic. In 2003, a retrospective in Bordeaux was cancelled because it was declared offensive.

Biography:

Pierre Molinier (Agen, 1900 - Bordeaux, 1976) was a French painter, a pioneer of the queer movement and body art and a master of photomontage. He was a provocative artist, who experimented with androgyny, fetishism and transvestism.