Painting Criticism or Painting as Criticism
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(Re)seeing Painting
Spring Summer 2021
This features dedicated to painting is part of an attempt to encourage critical analyses of painting practices. While presenting a selection of articles that attest to the diversity of aesthetic and conceptual approaches to this art form, (Re)seeing Painting puts forward some considerations of the different strategies deployed in art practices or dissemination networks. Though pictorial research may remain central to painters, some of them use their works as formidable tools of empowerment or protest, as a means to critically examine society.
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The Reactualization of Painting in Digital Times
Too Hard: Gay Figurative Painting’s Gimmicks
The Afterlife’s Painting
Narrative Bodies and Intimacy in Contemporary Figurative Painting
Damien Cadio, Des horizons
Painting in a Transitory Realm: Vincent Larouche and the Effects of Digital Culture
Listening to Pictorial Material
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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.