Launch and presentation of the book "Ecrits d'artistes sur l'économie, une anthologie"
Launch and presentation of the book « Ecrits d’artistes sur l’économie, une anthologie », published by B42. Meeting with Xavier Antin and Sophie Cras.
« What happens to the economy when it is thought, invented and dreamed by artists? It is little known, but many were those who, from the end of the nineteenth century until today, became economists for a time, going so far as to write real treatises whose stated ambition was to renew the discipline from top to bottom.
Whether they were trained in economics at university, built their theoretical conception of art in dialogue with economists, or elaborated a theoretical system in their own right, these artists offer us a rich and singular vision, both of the economic thought of their time and of current issues. Value, work, money and capitalism – so many themes scrutinized and revisited by these texts, of which this book proposes to make the anthology. »
With texts by:
Joseph Beuys, Burkhard Brunn, Luis Camnitzer, Sophie Cras, Öyvind Fahlström, Robert Filliou, Roger Fry, Jack Green, Núria Güell, Raoul Hausmann, Isidore Isou, Asger Jorn, Vassily Kandinsky, Yves Klein, Pierre Klossowski, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Kasimir Malevitch, William Morris, Jimmy Morrison, Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio, Charlotte Posenenske, John Ruskin, Joe Scanlan, Allan Sekula, W. A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy)
Sophie Cras is an art historian and teaches at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She works at the intersection of the fields of art and economics. Her book L’économie à l’épreuve de l’art. Art et capitalisme dans les années 1960 (Les presses du réel, 2018) questions the creative and critical gaze that contemporary artists have on the economy of their time.
Xavier Antin is a French artist who lives and works in the Paris region. Trained as a graphic designer, many of his editions make direct reference to both official and more underground histories of print culture. His plastic work summons a set of machines from the first modernity to the most recent digital technologies. Through his multiple attempts at grafting, Xavier Antin plays with the a priori limited technical possibilities offered by these tools. Represented by the Crèvecœur gallery since 2012, his work has been the subject of several solo exhibitions at the Maison d’Art Bernard Anthonioz (Nogent-sur-Marne), the BF15 (Lyon), the isdaT (Toulouse), the Spike Island Art Centre (Bristol), the Fondation Hermès (Singapore), or the CAC Brétigny (Brétigny-sur-Orge). His works are included in numerous private and public institutional collections, including national collections.
