in isolation. He later developed the "separatist movement", and series of "dühring dühring", "decompositions" and finally "depicted painting". Posterity Three years after his death, the magazine "Poézi Prolétèr" (No.2), directed by Katalin Molnar and Christophe Tarkos, published in 1998 an article on Wolman including several of his texts gathered under the title "Introduction of the word". Although at times often seen as a side-kick of Guy Debord, he is now regarded, along with Robert Filliou, as one of the more influential artists of his day. Wolman, however, who started a decade before Filliou, did not subscribe to Filliou's "genius without talent", but rather said that "genius is what we all have when we stop improving one thing in order to make something else. When we only refuse to have talent" (1964). Several of Wolman's audio recordings were published through Henri Chopin's journal, OU; and an l.p., L'Anticoncept, was issued in 1999 by Alga Marghen, which gathered together various sound works from 1951 to 1972. A volume of his uncollected writings was published in 2001 by Editions Allia, Défense de mourir. The first international retrospective of Wolman's works was held at MACBA (Barcelona, 2010) and Museu SERRALVES (Porto, 2011), curated by Frédéric Acquaviva, Bartomeu Mari and Joao Fernandes, with a catalogue "Gil J Wolman, I am immortal and alive" in 3 different versions : English, Spanish-Catalan, French-Portuguese. The Centre Pompidou in Paris devoted a room to Wolman's works in 2015 while La Plaque Tournante, an independent art space in Berlin, programmed the first Wolman Retrospective in Germany with 500 works and documents. Notes External links Wolman, Lettrism, Sound Poetry and Beyond Radio Web MACBA podcast reconstructing the link between Lettrism, sound poetry, and the work of some isolated but fundamental figures (radio/phony_9 of Frédéric Acquaviva). Gil J Wolman. I am immortal and alive Monographic exhibition (curated by Frédéric Acquaviva and Bartomeu Mari), on the work of Gil J Wolman, MACBA (2010) "Wolman in the Open" An essay by Frédéric Acquaviva Gil J Wolman Papers. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Lettrism 1929 births 1995 deaths Artists from Paris Wolman, Gil Joseph