Espace art actuel

The development of the ideology of transparency within aesthetic modernity and the importance of being able to circumvent it.

Art, destruction and creation.

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.

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…

Space as a privileged place to think and question our place in the world.

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”.

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…

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…

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 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.

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…

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…

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…

Special feature on Ecology, Nicolás Uriburu, interview with Edith Brunette, Kochi-Muziris Biennal, Ariane De Blois on the sculpted body, exhibitions and books reviews…

“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.

“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 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…