Robert Jasper Grootveld: excepcionalmente comum

Abstract

This Thesis delas primarily with life and art of Robert Jasper Grootveld, as well as his best-known contributions between 1965 and 1967, when he worked with the Dutch Provo. To this end, the thesis begins with a narrative interweaving his biography, reverberations and echoes of his productions. Based on these identifications, the thesis addresses common aspects, narrowing down the dialog between Grootveld’s actionsand artists discourses, strategies and relationships in later periods of artistic historicity. With a focus on temporality, and elements repeated and reaffirmed by Grootveld, such as his inseparable relationship with his hometown, which he explored urban, historical and cultural aspects, his relationship with Huizinga’s ludic and Schoenberger’s ludic conceptualism, and his constant criticism of ways of living, permeated by excessive consumption and exacerbated advertising. Finally, the thesis weaves an approach based on artistic activist actions and artists-of-the-common based on writings that unite the past and the present of art from the perspective of professor, researcher and author Stéphane Huchet.