This series of photographs documents one of Greco’s street actions during the summer of 1963. Greco briefly lived in the Spanish village Piedralaves and declared everything in it, including its residents, works of art by doing things like wrapping the entire town in toilet paper and inserting placards with his signature into everyday situations. “We should come into direct contact with the
living elements in our reality: movement, time, people, conversations, smells, rumours, places and situations,” he had written in a manifesto the previous year. Greco reframed real life as art, an idea that resonated with those of his Fluxus contemporaries.
Gallery label from 2020.
This series of photographs documents one of Greco’s street actions during the summer of 1963. Greco briefly lived in the Spanish village Piedralaves and declared everything in it, including its residents, works of art by doing things like wrapping the entire town in toilet paper and inserting placards with his signature into everyday situations. “We should come into direct contact with the living elements in our reality: movement, time, people, conversations, smells, rumours, places and situations,” he had written in a manifesto the previous year. Greco reframed real life as art, an idea that resonated with those of his Fluxus contemporaries.
Gallery label from "Collection 1940s—1970s", 2019
