What is the function of the workshop in the Renaissance? What relationship does the artist have with this mental space, at the same time a place of work, a private place, a space of production? How does the subject of the studio work in the history of modern art? In the 1960s, the dematerialized workshop became a concept with the works of Marcel Duchamp, Robert Filliou or Marcel Broodthaers. With the 2000s, appears the SME workshop. Today, how do artists rethink their practices by incorporating new technologies?
To answer these questions, are invited: Bernard Marcadé, Emmanuelle Brugerolles and Agnès Thurnauer.
This conversation will be moderated by Nathalie Guiot
A graduate of philosophy and art history, Bernard Marcadé (1948, Bordeaux) is an art critic and independent curator. Since 1985, he has been teaching at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy. Strongly influenced by Dada and the Situationist International, his activities as critic and curator can be understood as an attempt to show art with the weapons of art, that is, with the complicity of the artists. He is a regular contributor to the journals Artpress, Beaux-Arts Magazine, Parkett, Cahiers du Musée national d’art moderne, Tate, etc. Author of several books, including Marcel Duchamp’s most important biography in French to date, he is preparing a biography on Francis Picabia and a monograph on René Magritte.
Emmanuelle Brugerolles is the General Curator of Heritage, in charge of the collection of drawings at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Agnès Thurnauer is a Franco-Swiss artist. Self-taught in painting, she received a video film training at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Her work addresses the question of pictorial language, and implements a space where figuration and abstraction dialogue to give rise to new visions. Agnès Thurnauer is represented by the Valérie Bach Gallery in Brussels and Nadine Gandy in Bratislava.
Language: French
This talk will be followed by a reading by Boris Bergmann and a drink.
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