In May 1970, at a time when the first warm rays of the Californian spring were beginning to be felt, Swiss artist Dieter Roth organised an exhibition at the Eugenia Butler gallery (Los Angeles) that was remarkable, to say the [...]
We remember Martin Kippenberger (Dortmund, 1953 – Vienne, 1997) for his humour and irreverence. His motto was “Jeder Künstler ist ein Mensch”1, subverting Joseph Beuys’ famous maxim “Jeder Mensch ist ein Künstler”2. By switching the words, the citation is used [...]
H – Do you know it by heart, Blanqui’s phrase used as copy-and-paste in all the press releases from our association? H – I’d say it’s something like: Same monotony, same immobility (…). The universe repeats itself endlessly and paws [...]
Roland Barthes was one of the first to consider our everyday life attentively. With his Mythologies in particular, he revealed the way in which consumer objects and social practices shared en masse produce a discourse that speaks volumes about the twitches and [...]
The deformed shadow of Pinocchio, the mirroring mises-en-abyme of Blade Runner and the Arnolfini Wedding,1 the grimacing face of Aphex Twin by Chris Cunningham, the hyperbolic chignon of Madeleine… all of these figures were present in the exhibition Enchanter la matière vulgaire and have recurred several [...]
We are at the very beginning, you see.As though before everything.The night is hot and humid, wild, perhaps.You advance, masked. A mask in the image of your face, Cruise face to face, seeing Kidman escaping, ready for anything in order [...]
Concerning philosophers of French Theory, the newspaper Le Canard Enchaîné once stated that it was “the equivalent of Post-its in stationary: apparently they’re stuck onto everything” (8 October 1997). This was an accurate statement that was far from ill-founded. From [...]
La belle revue has chosen to inaugurate its new thematic section with an old subject. It does not intend to say everything about citations (that would be repetitious) but instead to glance into a few corners (in the studio and [...]
