[artinfo] symposium "Van Gogh-Duchamp: Huile & Eau?"

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Symposium
"Van Gogh-Duchamp: Huile & Eau?"

30-31 January 2015, 11am-6pm

Chapelle Saint Martin Du Méjan
Place Nina Berberova
Arles 13200 
France

<http://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=112867&N=11012&L=16691&F=H>www.fondation-vincentvangogh-arles.org
Speakers: Mark Alizart, Guillaume Bruère, 
Benjamin Buchloh, Andrea Büttner, Isabelle 
Cornaro, Cécile Debray, Nathalie Heinich, Bethan 
Huws, Jean De Loisy, Tala Madani, Bernard 
Marcadé, Piper Marshall, François Piron, Ralph 
Rugoff

Participation in the symposium is free. 
Advance registration is required.
Please email us at 
<mailto:symposium at fvvga.org>symposium at fvvga.org 
or phone us on T +33 (0) 4 90 93 08 08.

Conceptualism acquired ascendancy as an antidote 
to expressivity. For several decades now, we have 
denied excessive and exalted subjectivity the 
right to exist in art. To no avail. Emotion and 
immediacy subversively keep breaking down the 
barriers. 

Do the names Van Gogh and Duchamp stand for the 
opposition of hot and cold? Of existential drive 
versus intellectual potency? Of popular 
(accessible) versus sophisticated (elite)? Of 
painting and a(nti)painting? Of vibrant visual 
planes versus ironically manipulated fetishes? 
During the symposium, the following topics will 
be discussed: Van Gogh the authentic versus 
Duchamp the indifferent; Van Gogh and traditional 
craftsmanship in painting versus Duchamp and the 
ready-made; the advent of conceptual art as an 
antidote to the excess of expressivity, and the 
question of the return of the repressed, with the 
reappearance of emotion and immediacy in the 
practices of performance and video art, and 
equally in painting, sculpture, etc.; and the 
artist-martyr as moral cure for society versus 
the "professional" artist. 

"Van Gogh-Duchamp, huile et eau," a symposium 
(simultaneous interpreting, French/English) of 
short lectures and discussions, in which 
historical, sociological and explicitly 
practice-oriented artistic approaches, will be 
juxtaposed. 

Press relations:
Pierre Collet: 
<mailto:collet at aec-imagine.fr>collet at aec-imagine.fr 
/ T+33 680 84 87 71