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Jean-Luc Moulene's Dialectical Documents
This essayappearedin 2008 in the online journal Papers of Surrealism it is an edited version of the conference paper given in June 2006 at the conference The Use-Value of Documents, organised at the Courtauld Institute in relation to the exhibition Undercover Surrealism, at the Hayward Gallery.
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Review of Dubuffet retrospective published in Frieze, 2002
This article reviews the retrospective of the work of Jean Dubuffet organised at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Musee National d'Art Moderne, in 2002
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Book review Journal of Visual Culture 2008
This article reviews Caroline Jones' Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg's Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses. 2006. and Alice Goldfarb-Marquis'Art Czar: The Rise and Fall of Clement Greenberg. 2006.
Journal of Visual Culture, Apr 2008; vol. 7: pp. 123 - 126.
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Jong Holland magazine
Sophie Berrebi and Julia Noordegraaf are the guest editors of an issue of the Dutch journal Jong Holland on the use of documents and documentary in art and art history.
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PARIS CIRCUS NEW YORK JUNK: JEAN DUBUFFET AND CLAES OLDENBURG, 1959–1962
This article explores the artistic relation between Jean Dubuffet and Claes Oldenburg, attentive to the shifts in the critical reception of Dubuffet in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The essay focuses on Oldenburg's two major early environments, The Street and The Store, arguing thatOldenburg anticipated his critical reception by claiming the influence of Dubuffet over his work and turning this into a creative tool. In the process, Oldenburg transposed and ultimately rewrote Dubuffet's postwar vision of the 'common man' in the context of early pop art. Dubuffet's Paris Circus paintings from 1961–62 are briefly discussed in order to underscore a concept of influence as productive anachronism.
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Social Sculptureexhibition, June 2005
Social Sculpture, An exhibition curated by Sophie Berrebi
Ellen de Bruijne Projects Rozengracht 207 A 1016 LZ Amsterdam tel: +31-20-530.49.94 Opening:21 May 17–19 hours Exhibition: 21 May-9 July Gallery hours: Tu-Sat 13-18 hours 1st Sunday of theMonth 14-17 hoursJean-Baptiste Ganne (b. 1972, lives and works in Amsterdam) Saskia Janssen (b. 1968, lives and works in Amsterdam) Carey Young (b. 1970, lives and works in London) Social Sculpture brings together three artists of the same generation whose works explore in different ways the (im)possibility of the political. Drawing upon strategies of representation derived from, or alluding to, documentary formats and performative practices, their works reflect a certain scepticism as to the ability of words and images to convincingly convey political ideals. The awkwardness or, in Martha Rosler’s terms, ‘inadequacy’ with which words and images describe specific situations is here sharpened by juxtapositions that suggest the collapseof political idealism. Jean-Baptiste Ganne’s series of photographs aim at illustrating chapter headings of the book one of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital with documentary images of everyday life. His enterprise evokes both an ingenuous desire toseeif Marx’s analysis of industrial society still holdstrue today,and theinevitable discrepancy between past and present, theory and reality. The result, Le Capital Illustré foregrounds the awkward relation between image and text: neither one quite lives up to the expectations aroused by the other. Images and words are put to the test, drained, as if to see how long they could carry on being meaningful. Carey Young’s reworking of Joseph Beuys’ concept of social sculpture, transforming his rolls of felt into a roll of beige office carpeting entitled Social Sculpture, looks back to a time where art and politics could be one, and seems imbued with bittersweet irony and humour. Saskia Janssen’s video and photography installation Smoke, Smog and Fortune, puts into practice the ambivalence of political action and social engagement. Overturning market laws by paying workers to be idle, she portrays a group of Ukrainian men, an invisible workforce in the Czech republic, resting on their workplace, asleep in the green paradise of the parksurrounding Brno’s House of the Arts.
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