A symphony of greed resonates in the exchange floors,where fortunes are played and settled with scores. The devil’s suit is tailor-made, a handmade design,his fork replaced by interwoven contracts.In boardrooms and behind the scenes, where secrets unveil,he negotiates deals in [...]
par Benoît Lamy de la Chapelle The actual work of the contemporary artist is his or her CV1. De tonalité grise et sobre, constitués d’un mobilier froid et métallique, compressant les employés s’y affairant, les espaces de bureau dépeints dans [...]
by Marie Bechetoille Precarious statuses, contracts, pay, abuses of power, self-exploitation, and hypocrisy… The work of Joshua Schwebel identifies and reveals recurring, problematic practices in the contemporary art world, despite the fact that they are often invisible, masked, or hushed [...]
by Sophie Lapalu For the last few years, sociologist Barthelemy Bette has been preparing a thesis entitled L’art contemporain au travail, enquête sur des pratiques artistiques à la frontières de deux mondes sociaux [From Contemporary Art to Labour: An Inquiry [...]
by Julie Portier The most sensible of economists say so, and have done since the late 19th century: capitalist societies are evolving towards a growing reduction in work and reduction in the time that will be devoted to it in [...]
by Benoît Lamy de la Chapelle The ideal of an artists’ community revives some old fantasies: autonomy and independence in the face of social rules or professional norms and a desire to do things differently and in different places. Very [...]
by Mathieu Loctin Escena Politica is an anonymous collective comprising Argentinian artists working in the fields of contemporary dance and theatre who aim to reveal the profound malfunctions of the Argentine state and particularly the city of Buenos Aires in [...]
by Matha Rosler Original version published in english by e-flux. [...]
by Benoît Lamy de la Chapelle La Pommerie is an art research venue located on the Plateau de Millevaches and has a special role as an outlet of contemporary culture in a very remote social and geographic context. Very different [...]
by Marie Bechetoille Pauline Curnier Jardin is a storyteller, her projects most often take the form of installations, combining video, sculpture, performance, and painting. Like Ulysses’ use of metis [cunning], Pauline Curnier Jardin slips into other people’s skins in order [...]
by Annabela Tournon Identified through various movements restoring the humanist notion of painting (whose death certificate had nonetheless been duly signed by the picture artists group and its critics1), the history of the 1980s reiterated the story of the return [...]
by Franck Balland While the grotesque contributes, as Véronique Klauber notes in her definition, “the confirmation of the instability of everything”1, then the forces that animate the work of Jonas Delaborde frequently bring him back towards this register in which [...]
by Jill Gapsarina “I love my web And that’s a fact Guess while this loads I’ll grab a snack”1 The grotesque is a perfect object of study for our age. You can delve into a complete online reading of the [...]
by Benoît Lamy de la Chapelle In the field of contemporary art, open to the world and concerned with the future of people, living creatures, and the environment, initiatives and projects pertaining to politics, social welfare, economics, or ecology are [...]
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 [...]
