Espace art actuel

Founded in 1987 in Montreal, Espace art actuel is an essential bilingual magazine for the promotion of contemporary art in the field of sculpture, installation and all other art forms associated with the notion of spatiality. Published three times a year by Centre de diffusion 3D in Montreal, the magazine offers greater visibility to artists from Quebec and across Canada and contributes to the vitality of the local art scene. Since December 2013, Espace magazine has been led by André-Louis Paré.
 
Espace art actuel - Building
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
With the theme "Building," this issue is interested in the future of architecture as a practice of creating housing for the living within urban agglomerations. It questions the ways architecture, as the creation of living spaces, always requires collaboration with several participants including, hopefully, the users.
Espace art actuel - Odours
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Odour as an artistic medium.
Espace art actuel - Porn-O
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
The multiple issues of sexual representations in art / the complex relationships between art and the various forms of pornography.
Espace art actuel - Neurodiversity
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
The dynamic aspects of neurodiversity in creation, in the context of art therapy, or the production of contemporary visual art works.
Espace art actuel - Flesh
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Aesthetics/Ethics of the Flesh.
Espace art actuel - Voices
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Poetics of the voice.
Espace art actuel - Space Feminisme
2022
bilingual edition (texts in English and French)
Space in the feminine.
Espace art actuel - The artist-museologist
2021
bilingual edition (texts in English and French)
The use by artists of objects coming from the collections of museums of art, science, and society.
Espace art actuel - Climatology
2021
bilingual edition (texts in English and French)
Art, environment and climate emergency.
Espace art actuel - Come Out
2021
bilingual edition (texts in English and French)
Re-territorializing the public space.
Espace art actuel - Laboratories
2020
bilingual edition (texts in English and French)
A range of artistic and theoretical proposals on the theme of "laboratories".
Espace art actuel - Dictatorships
2020
bilingual edition (texts in English and French)
currently out of stock
Contemporary dictatorships and tyrannies.
Espace art actuel - AI, art without artists?
2020
bilingual edition (texts in English and French)
currently out of stock
How can we today situate the artist or, more broadly, the act of creation using artificial intelligence?
Espace art actuel - Transparency
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
The development of the ideology of transparency within aesthetic modernity and the importance of being able to circumvent it.
Espace art actuel - On Destruction
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Art, destruction and creation.
Espace art actuel - Animal Point of View
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
This issue offers various approaches to what the animal point of view can be, through a set of contributions that reflect on this new relational state in which animals can take part in the artistic activity.
Espace art actuel - Psychoactive: Art under the Influence
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Artistic practices and psychotropic drugs: a recent history of psilocybe in art; Nan Goldin; Bryan Lewis Saunders: self-portraits under the influence; Colleen Wolstenholme; Jeremy Shaw; Christian Skjødt; reviews and selected publications…
Espace art actuel - Space Art
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Space as a privileged place to think and question our place in the world.
Espace art actuel - Wounds
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
What can art do to relieve pain and heal wounds? This issue's main section addresses these questions through an examination of works by Kader Attia, Emily Falencki, Eric Fischl, Berlinde De Bruyckere and Teresa Margolles, as well as two essays by Édith-Anne Pageot and Mirna Boyadjian. Other features includes an interview with Marion Zilio, followed by the usual sections “Interview”, “Events” and “Reviews”.
Espace art actuel - Shivers
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
This issue addresses the shiver and explores the affective dimension in the field of art. With: Aseman Sabet on Stendhal syndrome; poetic images and waking dreams in contemporary art; the aesthetic shudder, from Nietzsche to Castellucci; Anicka Yi; Myriam Lefkowitz; interview with Sophie Jodoin; the Venice Biennale and Manif d'art 8; reviews and selected publications…
Espace art actuel - Digital
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sculpture in a Digital World: “Digital Fabrications”; “Assembling the Post-Fordist Social Factory”; “Sculptors And Technology: Beyond The Digital”; Null Object: Gustav Metzger Thinks About Nothing by London Fieldworks; Jesse Colin Jackson's Marching Cubes; the 3D Additivist Cookbook; interviews with Grégory Chatonsky & Dominique Sirois, Erika Lincoln; the 6th edition of La Littorale; reviews and selected publications…
Espace art actuel - Statue Play
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Anniversary issue concerned with performance acts in relation to the body as sculpture. Featuring essays on immobility in 1990s performance art, the deadpan inertia of the sculpture-body, immobility in the works of Gathie Falk and Megan Rooney, dialogue between the works of Kimsooja and Emma Hamilton, the relationship berween the human body and the object, the “cadaverous sculptures”, an interview with Sylvie Tourangeau, “Event” section, exhibitions and books reviews…
Espace art actuel - Faces
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace is a magazine dedicated to all art forms associated with spatiality. Its 114th issue focuses on the representation of the face in the arts. Contents include an opening text by Jacques Py, “The Native Mask as an Object to Read Identity” by Alexia Pinto Ferretti, “The Double-dealing of the Contemporary Face” by Marion Zilio, “Biometrics, Identity, and the Potential Of the Visage” by Vincent Marquis, “The Face: the Other Of the Portrait?” by André-Louis Paré, “Events” and “Public Artworks” Sections, exhibition reports and book reviews.
Espace art actuel - Fetishes
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Special feature on Fetishism (ready-mades, the aesthetics of commodity, Benoît Pype and Kapwani Kiwanga, interview with Musa paradisiaca…), “Events” section honours artist Mathieu Lefèvre, essay by Jean-Alexandre Perras and Érika Wicky on Tate Britain's exhibition “Sensorium,” exhibitions and books reviews…
Espace art actuel - Counter-monuments
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
This issue addresses the notion of (counter-)monuments with essays on National Identity, Immersion Serving Memory, Optical Protocols, Alexandra Pirici's Soft Power, The Kai Dikhas Gallery, Thomas Hirschhorn, The Memorial to the Victims of Communism…
Espace art actuel - Migrations-Borders
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Special “Migrations & Borders” issue: texts by Bernard Schütze, Geneviève Chevalier, and Michael Blum, Milutin Gubash by Chantal T. Paris, François Morelli by Bernard Lamarche, interview with Aram Han Sifuentes, Dominique Sirois-Rouleau's essay on outdoor art, the usual features…
Espace art actuel - Forms of Ecology
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Special feature on Ecology, Nicolás Uriburu, interview with Edith Brunette, Kochi-Muziris Biennal, Ariane De Blois on the sculpted body, exhibitions and books reviews…
Espace art actuel - Diorama
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
“Diorama” special feature (studies on Xu Zhen's Starving of Sudan and Kent Monkman's Bête Noire, essays on Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and the Persistence of the Diorama, the Diorama as artistic process, Vicky Sabourin's stagings), interview with Nathalie Heinich— in addition to the usual contents.
Espace art actuel - Re-Thinking Sculpture?
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
currently out of stock
“Re-Thinking Sculpture: Part Two” with two essays by Maxime Coulombe and Marie-Hélène Leblanc, and two interviews with James Nizam and Guillaume La Brie. Also in this issue: “Soundscape as Material” by Josianne Poirier “Monoceros: of the Earth, for the Stars” by RM Vaughan, interview with Derya Akay…
Espace art actuel - Re-Thinking Sculpture?
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
currently out of stock
Espace begins a new cycle with André-Louis Paré as the new magazine editor. This issue introduces a revamped version of the magazine, including a special feature “Re-Thinking Sculpture,” Jeff Thomas, Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno, exhibitions and books' reviews…
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