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Plonk & Replonk take on New York
The hilarious collective is no longer formed by two Jura brothers established in La Chaux-de-Fonds, but the adventure continues… in the United States!
PublishedOctober 10, 2023, 06:55
Bébert and his “pee poo” humor take on New York.
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Bébert made the trip without his new accomplice for the 125th anniversary of an institution headed by the former director of Photo Élysée in Lausanne, Tatyana Franck.
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A bathroom has been recreated in homage to Marcel Duchamp, famous for his upside-down urinal called “The Buddha of the Bathroom”, then “Fountain”.
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A bathtub in place of a urinal, a ready-made refused by the curators of the New York art fair, in 1917.
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A lover of surrealist constructions, “Plonk & Replonk – Bébert” knows that the urinal signed R.Mutt was a simple sanitary item purchased in a store of the JL Mott Iron Works company, in New York.
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A giraffe is currently taking to the heights at the French Institute (FIAF) in New York, in the “Cabinet of Curiosities” installed since September 21 in the entrance hall of the Library.
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Are shoemakers wearing bad shoes in the world of “Plonk & Replonk – Bébert”?
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Claude Stadelmann and Hubert Froidevaux have traveled a lot, here in Madagascar.
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Hubert flies the Jura colors internationally.
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Its calendar celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Jura vote for self-determination will be valid in 2024 as in 2074, with an exhibition planned for June 14 at the Musée du Pire in Porrentruy (JU).
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“Plonk & Replonk” is a comic collective that only kept one brother out of two: Jacques Froidevaux having sunk with a bottle in his hand that is not oxygen, Hubert cut the cord to stay afloat. An appendix indicates this change: it is “Plonk & Replonk – Bébert” which is now in question.
Hubert Froidevaux is not alone: the filmmaker Claude Stadelmann holds his hand. “I don’t pretend to replace Jacques! I am a literary person, I bring another color to an offbeat world which is becoming surreal,” explains Claude Stadelmann.
Moreover, since its creation in 1995, Plonk & Replonk has always been more than siblings, with the presence of Miguel-Angel Morales. “Often together, but not always in symbiosis,” says a friend.
At the end of the tunnel
The filmmaker Claude Stadelmann is close to the collective whom he called upon to color the eleven chapters of his documentary film “At the end of the tunnel, la Transjurane” from 2017, which traces the construction of the highway linking Bienne to Boncourt.
Officially, Hubert and Jacques “no longer agreed very well on how to manage the affair,” according to an observer. Let’s say that it was Hubert who ran the house at arm’s length, while Jacques lost his liver to alcohol.
A bankruptcy precipitated the divorce and what allows a rebirth under the regime of an association is the network of Claude Stadelmann, who with “Signe Productions” knows how to pull the strings of public financing with the Pro Helvetia foundation and private with the watchmaker Richard Mille, among others.
Tribute to Marcel Duchamp
A sign of renewal, “Plonk & Replonk – Bébert” has left rue de la Serre 22 for rue des Granges 9, in La Chaux-de-Fonds. Business is going rather well, since Bébert went to New York to set up and inaugurate an exhibition at the French Institute (FIAF) which pays homage to Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) and his urinal from 1917.
Around ten exhibitions are on the agenda of the man who repurposes old images, particularly on postcards. In Monthey (VS), “It was much better afterwards” is visible until 2025 and in Yverdon-les-Bains (VD), its humor rubs off on the Maison elsewhere until the end of the year, while a presence is planned in Martigny as part of the next Bacon Fair.
Next year will follow Turkey at the Palais de France in Istanbul, France at the Museum of Hunting and Nature in Paris during the Olympic Games and in the village of Journans in Ain, and perhaps Vietnam in Hanoi and the Congo in Kinshasa…
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