May

9

Life above Culture…

May 9, 2012 | by | Leave a Comment

… if Culture doesn’t deserve it.

     ‘Constructed’ photographs by Lori Nix (each scene is made by hand, with no digital manipulation). ‘The City’ is a nice series about the ruins of contemporary world.

www.lorinix.net

 

Photo (‘Library’) © Lori Nix
 
 

Jul

3

Flatness in pictorial art

July 3, 2011 | by | Leave a Comment

“It has been established by now, it would seem, that the irreducibility of pictorial art consists in but two constitutive conventions or norms: flatness and the delimitation of flatness. In other words, the observance of merely these two norms is enough to create an object which can be experienced as a picture: thus a stretched or tacked-up canvas already exists as a picture – though not necessarily as a successful one.”

Clement Greenberg, “After Abstract Expressionism” (1962)

Jan

14

Thibault Isabel: pessimism in art

January 14, 2011 | by | Leave a Comment

Thibault Isabel sees all modern art forms as so many symptoms of the diseases afflicting society. Doctor in film studies, he gave us in “The Field of Possibles” (“Le Champ du Possible”, 2005) the intellectual outline of a ‘psychology of art’ which would attempt to reconcile art and life. In “The End of Century of American Cinema” (“La Fin de Siècle du Cinéma Américain”, 2006), Thibault Isabel investigates the causes of what he considers to be the decline of a contemporary society without a credible perspective of remission, through their reflections on the screens of the seventh art. Finally, with “The Paradox of Civilization” (“Le Paradoxe de la Civilisation”, 2010), he will pronounce himself for the return of old forms of violence, and their paradoxical integration into a ‘civilizing process’…

www.thibaultisabel.com