Il s’agit ici de dessiner la trajectoire de Juan Mayorga, depuis les années 1990 où il commença à publier ses premiers textes, jusqu’à l’année 2016-2017, où il met en scène sa propre pièce El Cartógrafo. Mayorga occupe une place particulière dans le panorama théâtral espagnol contemporain : avant de...

Melancolia of well-being is the feeling that there is nothing rather than something. However, the sublime feeling is that from the very inside of this melancolia, something happens ‘anyway’, a pathos, a core disorder such as Pseudo-Longin’s writing. It is this disruption, as in the influence in love...

The Centre National des Arts Plastique (CNAP) and the Kandinsky Library of the National Museum of Modern Art/CCI, Pompidou Centre are pleased to invite you to the launch of the book “The artists iconographes” published by Empire and Villa du Parc, Centre of Contemporary Art, including its director G...

The PhD Study Day “Photographic Transformations” offers questions about the experiences of this medium in the visual arts of the contemporary period. In the 19th century, photographers tried to remove the photograph from its mere documentary function and its form of an unalterable footprint, by deve...

Artiste born in Taiwan in 1954 of Chinese parents from Continent, Mei Dean-E himself defines himself as a ‘political artist’. Through his work inspired by both the Dada and the Pop Art, which he studied closely during his studies in New York, he constantly questioned the various forms of power, of w...

In the context of postmodernism, history writing has become a crucial issue. Called “epistemological turn” by historians and “metahistorical fiction” by writers, such a tendency is the proof of a “metahistorical awareness” which arises nowadays in Western societies as a whole, inviting to consider h...

the ACTE Institute (Paris 1), the ELLIADD laboratory (University of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté) and the Practice and Theories of Contemporary Art team (Rennes 2) organise the first colloquium of the Performances/Scens of the Reel project, which aims to develop and increase reflections and the establish...

1937-1939, André Leroi-Gourhan, a young researcher entering contemporary and old Japan. He then draws up a quantity of descriptive sheets at the basis of his first masterpiece Evolution and Techniques, collects a large number of objects for museums, but also writes various texts, which remain almost...

International audience Depuis le début des années 1980, le monde social de la littérature en France est défini par la tension entre le patrimonial et le contemporain. La littérature est entrée dans l’ère du patrimoine avec la politique des célébrations et des commémorations nationales. Cette patrimo...

How artists, more specifically graphic and plastic, take part in the ‘intellectual figure’. The figure of the activist seems to correspond to it (1) in his report to the intellect and knowledge, (2) through his ethical commitment and (3) through his public visibility. Thus, this chapter shows how hi...

Les archives jouent un rôle grandissant dans l’art contemporain, tant dans la pratique des artistes que dans celle des chercheurs. Le critique Hal Foster parle de « pulsion d’archive » [archival impulse], à propos d’artistes qui se servent d’archives comme d’un matériau pour leurs œuvres et de fait,...

this opus is published following the exhibition ‘Exchanges — Marc Desgrandchamps, Stéphane Pencreac’h’, presented at the Galerie Art -Essai of University Rennes 2 from 16 December 2016 to 16 February 2017, and at the Museum of Fine Arts in Rennes from 16 December 2016 to 22 January 2017, Commissaria...

As part of the programme — Fluidity, circulating the empty box — from January to April 2018, supported by the Bordeaux Montaigne University, the FSDIE, the House of Research, the LE-LEA Library, and the Department of Korean Studies. On Thursday 26 April from 14 a.m. to 18 p.m., the University of Bor...

Urban and contemporary art is becoming renowned in north-eastern Paris and is becoming an object of tourism. The works produced are part of territorial marketing, so artists have to deal with economic, political and artistic realities. The evolution of urban and contemporary art, its institutionalis...

Chronique ‘Copyright and related rights’ The reception of contemporary works of art by copyright continues to be the reception of contemporary works of art by copyright.

Marc Verat est un peintre contemporain français dont la production s’étend du surréalisme à la peinture académique[1] en passant par le montage (mélanges de photographies de lieux chargés d’histoire, de tableaux de peintres pompiers et de dessins)[2]. Il a fréquenté plusieurs écoles d’art en France...

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S’il est toujours possible d’appréhender une exposition uniquement pour ce qu’elle donne à voir au visiteur, une connaissance plus élargie des conditions de fabrication qui mène au produit final n’en affecte pas moins, positivement ou négativement, son évaluation globale. L’exposition monographique...

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Innovative Poet and member of futurism, Ivan Axionov brings justice here to Pablo Picasso, which he admire and wishes to wash accusations of mysticism and ‘museum painter’. On the basis of a definition of art that rhythm at the pace, this contemporary Picasso, a dignified Russian cosmopolite and Eur...

The plural of the title, with this ‘s’ to ‘history’, is interesting. He underlined the plurality of stories, origins and views. But the expression ‘history of seeing’, in itself almost familiar, also follows the contrasting logic of the catalogue accompanying the exhibition at the Cartier Foundation...

Before reading Bricoleur de Real, I only knew Gaston Chapac (1910-1964) of his paintings and totems with seizing compositions. Contemporary and friend of Jean Dubuffet, this painter/plastician started at the age of 26 in a period of errance and ill-beeability, which led him to attend various care in...