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Roland Topor
"The humanity needs sublime. The sublime of the sublime, it is the art. The sublime of the art, it is the avant-garde."
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
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« Il est également absurde de vivre en perdant de vue le paramètre absolu de la mort que de laisser la pensée de la mort prochaine gâcher mon existence, » disait l'artiste. Décédé en avril 1997 après un accident cardio-vasculaire, l'illustrateur, dessinateur, peintre, écrivain, poète, metteur en scène, chansonnier, acteur et cinéaste Roland Topor est enterré au cimetière du Montparnasse. Il a été nommé, à titre posthume, satrape du Collège de Pataphysique. Avec respect, cette marguerite.
"La réalité n'a pas besoin de prouver qu'elle existe. Quand on l'oublie, elle se contente de faire mal." - Roland Topor
"Je veux que mon existence soit une suprême offense aux vautours qui s'impatientent depuis les années quarante en illustrant sans complexe le sang, la merde et le sexe." - Roland Topor
"Stupéfiant ! Tout le temps que j'avais devant moi, il est derrière." - Roland Topor
"La mort est plus nue que la vérité." - Roland Topor
"L'erreur, comme le rire, est le propre de l'homme. Mais c'est infiniment plus créatrice." - Roland Topor
"Les idées fusaient de partout quel que soit le sujet ou les circonstances. Il y avait tout le temps un foisonnement d’idées. Ça n’arrêtait pas. C’était un puits. Mais un puits sans vérité. Je crois qu’il ne se préoccupait pas tellement de la vérité du puits !" - Daniel Colagrossi
Notes of biography
Abram Topor, father of the artist came to setlle in Paris in 1930 thanks to a grant from the Warsow Arts Academy. Roland Topor was born in 1938. His family will stay for a while in Savoie. Conditions are rude for Jewish family trying to escape Nazis. His father passes him on his passion for arts and the young man will join the School of Fine Arts in Paris (1955-1964).
Eclectic man, Roland Topor is illustrator, drawer, painter, writer, poet, director, singer, actor and filmmaker.
He publishes his first drawings in the review « Bizarre », his first short stories appear in the review « Fiction » in 1958. His corrosive humor leads him to collaborate with the satirical newspaper « Hari-Kiri » (1961-1965). « Masochists » his first book is edited by Losfeld in 1961. Totally tragic, absurd and grotesque , the humor he disseminates evokes more the one of Central Europe. All his creations from the beginning till the end remain provocative and bizarre.
He is one of the creator of the « Panique » movement (Arrabal, O. Olivier, Jodorowsky, Sternberg) in 1962, a group that sets his life style on confusion, humor, terror, hazard and euphoria.
Attracted by the cinema, he meets with René Laloux. After several short movies, his long movie « La Planète Sauvage » gets the Jury Special Price in Cannes in 1973. As an actor Roland Topor obtains small roles : « Nosferatu, fantôme de la nuit », film by Werner Herzog, with Isabelle Adjani and Klaus Kinski. Roland Topor realizes many movies posters (« Le Tambour » by Volker Schlöndorff, « L'Empire de la passion » by Oshima, etc). During the seventies, his novel « Le Locataire chimérique » gets adapted by Roman Polanski (« Le Locataire »). He also works with Federico Fellini for « Casanova » drawing images for the sequence around the « lanterne magique ».
In 1988, Topor decides to adapt the life of the Marquis de Sade. « Marquis » becomes a cult movie. Roland Topor works with his partner Jean-Michel Ribes on many projects (TV, theater and movie). With Henri Xhonneux, their TV series « Téléchat » has such a succes that 234 episodes are shot.
Theater author, he writes « Vinci avait raison » which sets off an big scandal in Belgium during his creation, « Joko fête son anniversaire », « L' Ambigu », or « L' Hiver sous la table ».
Topor works many times with his friend Jérôme Savary (« Les Aventures de Zartan », « De Moïse à Mao »), he is involved with the staging, the set, the costumes of Ubu Roi at the Maillot National Theater in 1973.
Roland Topor dies in 1997 in Paris. He leaves us with luxurious, original and violent works that still remain actual today.
Artists on display
The art and the artists display: proclamations, galleries, museums, personal or collective exhibitions. On walls or in shop windows, wise or rebels, posters warn, argue, show. Some were specially conceived by an artist for such or such event, other, colder, have only the letter.
Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
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To read about the artist :
- « Roland Topor », Jacques Sternberg, Ed. Seghers, 1978
- « T. rit encore », P. Roegiers, Ed. Maison Européenne de la photographie, 1999
- « Topor, l’homme élégant » , Christophe Hubert, Ed. Hermaphrodites, Paris, 2004
- « Topor - Dessins Panique », Roland Topor, Collectif, Ed. Hazan, Paris, 2004
- « R. Topor ou le rire étranglé », F. Vaillant, Ed. Buchet-Chastel, Paris, 2007
- « Topor traits », Daniel Colagrossi, Ed. Scali, Paris, 2007
- « Le locataire chimérique », Ed. Buchet - Chastel, 2011
- « Merci Roland Topor », Salim Jay, Ed. Fayard 2014
- « Joko fête son anniversaire », Ed . Wombat, 2016
- « Vaches noires », Topor et Rollin (préface), Ed. Le Livre de Poche, 2017
To read from the artist :
- « Mémoires d'un vieux con », Roland Topor, Ed. du Seuil, Paris, 1998
- « Roland Topor », in « Là-bas si j'y suis », 2016
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Stamp by Roland Topor
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stamps
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A tribute to Roland Topor
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« Il est également absurde de vivre en perdant de vue le paramètre absolu de la mort que de laisser la pensée de la mort prochaine gâcher mon existence, » disait l'artiste. Décédé en avril 1997 après un accident cardio-vasculaire, l'illustrateur, dessinateur, peintre, écrivain, poète, metteur en scène, chansonnier, acteur et cinéaste Roland Topor est enterré au cimetière du Montparnasse. Il a été nommé, à titre posthume, satrape du Collège de Pataphysique. Avec respect, cette marguerite.
"La réalité n'a pas besoin de prouver qu'elle existe. Quand on l'oublie, elle se contente de faire mal." - Roland Topor
"Je veux que mon existence soit une suprême offense aux vautours qui s'impatientent depuis les années quarante en illustrant sans complexe le sang, la merde et le sexe." - Roland Topor
"Stupéfiant ! Tout le temps que j'avais devant moi, il est derrière." - Roland Topor
"La mort est plus nue que la vérité." - Roland Topor
"L'erreur, comme le rire, est le propre de l'homme. Mais c'est infiniment plus créatrice." - Roland Topor
"Les idées fusaient de partout quel que soit le sujet ou les circonstances. Il y avait tout le temps un foisonnement d’idées. Ça n’arrêtait pas. C’était un puits. Mais un puits sans vérité. Je crois qu’il ne se préoccupait pas tellement de la vérité du puits !" - Daniel Colagrossi
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