Pierre Pinoncelli, the artist who cut of his finger
(Pierre Pinoncelli, l'artiste à la phalange coupée)
Virgile Novarina
- 2022
- France
- Documentary
- 1h25mn
- French
- Color
Is vandalizing modern art an art form in itself?
Pierre Pinoncelli came to attention by twice vandalizing Marcel Duchamp's urinal fountain using urine and a hammer. But these acts, deemed gratuitous by some, overshadowed the essence of a subversive, iconoclastic and philosophical approach.
This portrait does justice to an artist who is also a painter, questions this funny and touching man, and depicts the journey of a rebel who clearly made his point. Whether he sprays red paint on André Malraux, robs a bank to protest against apartheid, cuts off part of his finger to denounce the violence of the FARC in Columbia, all his radical - and often humorous- acts, ring like snapshots of their times. Like an artistic terrorist that hurts only himself, he’s like Camus’s Rebel.
Credits
- Voiceover by : Fabrice Drouelle
- With : Pierre Pinoncelli, Michel Ragon, Sarane Alexandrian, Catherine Millet
- Screenplay : Virgile Novarina
- Photography : Virgile Novarina
- Editing : Damien Faure, Virgile Novarina
- Music by : Xavier Roux, Léonard Novarina
- Production : Gilles Coudert
