Du «désespoir du bleuet» : quelques réflexions sur l'œuvre de Blinky Palermo (1943-1977)

The work of the German artist, Blinky Palermo, a student of Beuys's, is to be situated in the artistic movement of revolt which seized the western artistic world in the sixties and seventies. Yet, its specificity lies in the extreme formal subtlety with which the young artist (he died at the age of 34) sought to make the spectator aware of the profound conceptual, and even spiritual, implications which can still legitimate artistic creation in this second half of the XXth century.