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Irrévérence

Winter 2006

[In French] Connotée négativement, l’irrévérence relève souvent, dans le domaine de l’art, d’une stratégie subversive et critique. Que l’on pense à l’iconoclasme ou au vandalisme artistique, à différentes pratiques de détournement, aux pastiches ou à la satire, à des formes d’art extrême ainsi qu’à de nombreuses pratiques dites outrageuses, c’est sur de multiples variations, et de milles façons, que l’irrévérence se décline, d’où la richesse d’un tel sujet.

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Abstractions

Spring Summer 2025

Yet what about abstraction today? Long confined to formalist and self-referential imperatives, abstraction has gradually freed itself from the modernism yolk to recapture its evocative power. This issue proposes to turn away from the dogma of Abstraction as a historical genre to consider its various plastic and semantic avenues. In this invitation to explore abstractions, we wish to re-establish a dialogue between content and form, between the political and the poetic, by engaging with works that evoke reality differently. Whether they are qualified as abstract, non-figurative, or non-objective, these works certainly tell us stories.

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