Compte rendu dans Acta fabula: Vie, poésie, sacré et abstraction chez les artistes contemporains français, par Magali Nachtergael
Contemporary French Art 1. Eleven Studies.
Michael BISHOP
Amsterdam/New York : Rodopi, coll. "Faux titre", 2008.
89 pp.
EAN : 978-90-420-2418-2
€ 38
Présentation de l'éditeur :
en Vautier, Niki De Saint Phalle, François Morellet, Louise Bourgeois,Alexandre Hollan, Claude Viallat, Sophie Calle, Bernard Pagès,Jean-Pierre Pincemin, Annette Messager, Gérard Titus-Carmel: elevenmajor French artists of the last forty years or so, examined in thelight of their uniqueness and their rootedness, the specificities oftheir differing and at times overlapping plastic practices and theswirling and often highly hybridised conceptions entertained in regardto such practices. Thus does analysis range from discussion of thefeisty, Fluxus-inspired, free-spirited funkiness of Ben Vautier's workto the various modes of transcendence of trauma and haunting feargenerated by the exceptional gestures of Niki de Saint Phalle andLouise Bourgeois, to the alyrical formalism yet imbued with irony andludicity of François Morellet, through to the serene intensities ofAlexandre Hollan's vies silencieuses, the infinite a-signatures of Claude Viallat's adventure in the sheer joy of a poieinof self-reflexive coloration, the powerfully elegant and musculardisarticulations of Bernard Pagès' sculpture, the great sweep throughart's history implied by Jean-Pierre Pincemin's chameleon-likegestures, the vast swirling programme of socio-psychological analysisthe arts of Annette Messager and Sophie Calle offer in their radicallydistinctive manners, the obsessively serialised oeuvre of GérardTitus-Carmel allowing a burrowing deep into the opaque logic of a realthough dubious ‘presence to the world'.
Sommaire :
Preface
Truth and Infinity: Ben Vautier
Shooting for Transcendence: Niki de Saint Phalle
Baroque Minimalist?: François Morellet
Sublimation, the Irreducible and the Sacred: Louise Bourgeois
Seeing Being: Alexandre Hollan
Spiralling, Infinity, Tautology: Claude Viallat
Ritual, Desire, Dys-Covering: Sophie Calle
Raggedness, Fusion and Silence: Bernard Pagès
Structure, Sensuality, Fable, Accompaniment: Jean-Pierre Pincemin
Chimera, Caress, Sacred Implosion: Annette Messager
Absence and Melancholia, Meaning and Beauty: Gérard Titus-Carmel
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