Marc'O, author, director and all-rounder of the artistic scene, has died

Director, filmmaker, writer, magazine founder, theorist, and researcher Marc'O died on June 11 in Paris at the age of 98. His name will mean nothing to Generations Y, Z, or Alpha. Yet he is one of those who sneakily slip into conversations whenever they mention the underground and disruptive art scene of the second half of the ^20th century.

Around this figure, less discreet than it seems, a host of artists emerged whose freedom to be was a constant. Jean Cocteau, Jean Eustache, Bernardo Bertolucci, Bulle Ogier, Pierre Clémenti, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Catherine Ringer, Yves Klein: not one of them who did not have dealings, directly or indirectly, with the audacities of Marc'O. The man brings together the effervescence of an era where culture, which invented itself point blank in theater, cinema, literature or poetry, did so preferably on the margins rather than at the heart of institutions.

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