On the initiative of Olivier Gourvil, Professor at the ESAD GV
After minimalism, numerous plastic and pictorial forms clearly assume enormity and excess as salutary impropriety. In his famous essay “Of the essence of laughter” Baudelaire saw the comic as an excess and an extreme, to the point of being grotesque.
Even the term “grotesque” itself should be considered in relation to two major entries: one aesthetic and historical that designates an ornamental type, the other psychological and perceptive in the field of the comic. “The height of art” presents a vast colour chart where ornamental and decorative forms meet those of excess, where organic figures borrow willingly from the body, from its gendered forms, its distortions, and from laughter, “this monstrous phenomenon”.
For contemporary painters, what are the plastic and pictorial forms of excess, deformation and humour today? Don't phenomena of ambiguities, formal fusions, of ornament and décor, of anthropomorphic an organic proliferation – being the marked characteristics of the grotesque – belong today to the domain of images, of screens and systems of communication and not to that of art and painting in particular, even under profoundly different appearances?
In which domains, sometimes outside of painting itself, will painters seek the origins? During these roundtable discussions, we will bring together, using various forms (communication, discussion, exchange) testimonies from artists, critics and historians on these questions.
Dans quels domaines, parfois extérieurs à la peinture elle-même, les peintres vont-ils en rechercher les ressorts ?
Lors de ces tables rondes, nous rapprocherons sous des formes diverses (communication, discussion, échange) les témoignages d'artistes et de critiques et historiens sur ces questions.
Intervenants :
Jérôme Boutterin
Béatrice Cussol
Mick Finch
Paul van der Eerden
David Ryan
Christophe Viart
Emmanuelle Villard
Écoles invitées dans le cadre du projet:
ENSA Bourges (Didier Mencoboni ou Eric Corne )
ENSA Dijon ( Bruno Rousselot)
EESAB Rennes ( Dominique Abensour, François Perrodin, Christophe. Viart )
CSM Londres ( Mick Finch)
CSA Cambridge (David Ryan)
Un groupe d'étudiants de chaque école se déplacera sur Valence à l'occasion de ces tables rondes.
