En relation avec la pratique artistique de l’auteur, cette recherche se développe autour de la questiondes comportements du spectateur de l’art contemporain dans l’espace de l’œuvre, en France.L’art intègre depuis les années 1960 le spectateur, appelant sa participation ou le tenant volontairement à distance. Les oeuvres ne nécessitent plus une attitude contemplative, espèrent le visiteur actif voire acteur du déroulement de la création. Mais l’observation de ses comportements révèle également un rapport inédit à l’espace de l’art : certains publics y voient une continuité de la rue, et leur réception s’en ressent. L’étude de cette nouvelle figure du spectateur mène à interroger les outils que lui proposent les structures, afin que sa rencontre avec l’œuvre ne soit pas vaine : la médiation est développée, accompagnement nécessaire mais potentiel obstacle à une interprétation personnelle. Elle est aussi une vitrine de la démocratisation culturelle ; comme d’autres missions des lieux d’art, elle a pour fonction d’attirer et de fidéliser des publics peu sensibles à l’art actuel. Les espaces de consommation, de repos peuvent les inciter à dépasser le seuil des lieux d’exposition, qui doivent s’adapter aux diverses attentes – souvent contradictoires – des artistes et du public, et aux exigences politiques.L’auteur donne forme plastique à ces préoccupations dans une installation traduisant, par une pratique du bricolage qui lui est propre, l’enfouissement de l’œuvre sous les discours de médiation et les diverses préoccupations concernant l’accueil des spectateurs. Que devient l’œuvre lorsque le contexte de l’art occupe plus de place dans les discours que l’art lui-même ? / In conjunction with the creator’s artistic practice, this research develops the issue of the contemporary art spectator’s behaviors in art spaces in France.Art has integrated the visitor since the 1960’s, calling upon his participation or voluntarily keeping him at a distance. The works do not require a contemplative attitude anymore, but would rather the visitor be active or even an actor in the creation process. But observing these behaviors equally reveals a new relationship with art spaces: certain publics consider them a continuation of the street, which plays out in their reception of the artwork. The study of this new type of spectator brings about an inquiry of the tools with which organizations provide him so that his encounter with the artwork is not in vain: mediation is developed, a necessary guide, but also a potential obstacle to a personal interpretation. It is also a showcase of cultural democratization. Like other arts centers’ missions, mediation is meant to attract and develop the public’s loyalty, especially for those who are not aware of contemporary art.Consumption and leisure spaces can incite them to enter the exhibition space, which must be adapted to political requirements and to the often contradictory expectations of the artists and of the public. The creator gives his interests a visual form in an installation, using his own methods and thus translating the artwork’s meaning, hidden beneath mediation, and the different concerns around the public’s reception. What does the work of art become once the context takes center stage in the discussion on art itself ?

O presente trabalho investiga o papel e o lugar ocupados pelo jovem artista dentro do campo da arte hoje. Demonstra que esta figura passou por um processo de dupla mitificação: a de ser jovem e a de ser artista. Revela o processo da sua construção histórica e social, mostrando como este assumiu um papel central na arte do século XXI. A pesquisa foi realizada a partir de entrevistas com seis artistas nascidos na década de 1980 e 1990 – Daniel Escobar, Marcos Fioravante, Marina Camargo, Rafael Pagatini, Raquel Magalhães e Romy Pocztaruk. O olhar dos entrevistados é representativo de uma geração e serve como fonte primária para esta análise. / This work seeks to investigate the role and place occupied by young artists in todays art field. It shows that this group has gone through two different mythification processes: being young and being an artist. Revealing the social-historical process that they went through and showing how they play this central role in the arts of XXI century. A research was made by interviewing six artists born on 1980 and 1990 decades - Daniel Escobar, Marcos Fioravante, Marina Camargo, Rafael Pagatini, Raquel Magalhães e Romy Pocztaruk. The view of the interviewees is representative of this generation and serves as a primary source for this analysis.

L’art moderne et contemporain a quitté le régime de la Représentation pour expérimenter d’autres fonctions et proposer à un nouveau « regardeur » d’autres rapports avec la réalité vécue. Pour cela, il faut que quelque chose de fondamental ait changé dans la relation de l’artiste au monde : l’espace n’est plus quelque chose qu’il élabore au moyen de l’oeuvre, ou en elle. L’espace est, pour l’artiste moderne, une « donnée » dans laquelle il est placé d’emblée, à l’instar de tout être. Cela veut dire qu’il n’y a pas d’espace propre à l’oeuvre d’art qui ne soit l’espace du monde lui-même. L’art, c’est le monde, à travers l’engagement de tout ce qui l’occupe.C’est ce que Jean Paulhan (1884-1968), en parlant des cubistes, avait appelé « l’espace brut » ou « l’espace spontané », et qui est désigné ici comme « l’espace réel », pour le différencier de toute fiction spatiale. C’est aussi ce que Marcel Duchamp a élaboré à travers ses expérimentations sur les choses et le langage, l’ayant conduit à concevoir cette complexematrice de l’art qu’est le Ready-made en remplacement de la Perspective. Ainsi, ce qu’on nomme art contemporain est un art qui s’élabore dans le monde, impliquant les êtres et les choses, les formes et les signes, mais aussi la « lumière » des idées, toujours déjà là. Comprendre l’art, c’est, pour chacun, appréhender, sans pouvoir se dérober, comment se joue une rencontre entre ces entités contradictoires, visant une unité nouvelle et exprimant l’intuition du monde comme Tout.Cette thèse est un tel effort de compréhension qui, dans ma pratique de commissaire d’exposition et de critique d’art, a été partagé avec des artistes, au plus près des oeuvres et dans de multiples contextes, dans le cadre de ces institutions « d’aménagement du territoire » que sont les Fonds régionaux d’art contemporain / Modern and contemporary art have abandoned the system of Representation to experiment with other functions and to offer a new “beholder” different relations with a lived reality. To do this, something fundamental had to alter the artist’s relation to the world: space is no longer developed by means of the work, or within it. For modern artist, space is a “given” in which he is immediately placed, like any being. This means that there is no space peculiar to the work of art which is not the space of the world itself. Art is the world, through the involvement of everything occupying its space.This is what, in talking about the Cubists, Jean Paulhan (1884-1968) called “raw space” and “spontaneous space”, which is here described as “real space”, to differentiate it from any spatial fiction. It is also what Marcel Duchamp developed in his experiments involving things and language, leading him to devise that new matrix of art known as the Readymade,replacing Perspective. So what we call contemporary art is an art that is developed within the world, involving beings and things, forms and signs, invariably already there. For everyone, understanding art is grasping how, without being able to sidestep, the encounter between these contradictory entities is enacted, aimed at a new unity and expressing the intuition of the world as a Whole.This thesis is such an effort at comprehension, which, in my activities as an exhibition curator and art critic, has been shared with artists, at very close quarters with works and in many different contexts, within the framework of those institutions of “regional development”, the regional contemporary art collections (FRAC).

Buscando combinar diversos estilos de escrita incluindo narrativas ficcionais, relatos pessoais e artigos, a presente dissertação reflete sobre a minha prática artística no âmbito da pintura, da instalação e do têxtil. O texto levanta reflexões poéticas acerca de conceitos como: materialidade, obsessão, ócio, método e deriva. Através de uma série de textos curtos a dissertação pretende discutir a minha produção poética, tornando-se outra dimensão do trabalho prático. / Seeking to combine diverse styles of writing including fictional narratives, personal reports and articles, the present dissertation reflects on my artistic practice in the scope of painting, installation and the textile. The text raises poetic reflections about concepts such as: materiality, obsession, idleness, method and drift. Through a series of short texts the dissertation intends to discuss my poetic production, becoming another dimension of practical work.

abstract: Counter-Landscapes: Performative Actions from the 1970s – Now presents a group of artists working in both natural and urban environments whose work exploits the power of place to address issues of social, environmental, and personal transformation. Through a focused selection of key works made between 1970 and 2019, which extend beyond traditional categories, Counter-Landscapes illuminates how the methodologies created by women artists in the 1970s and 1980s are employed by artists today, both men and women alike. Developing a practice of performative actions, these artists countered the culture that surrounded and oppressed them by embodying the live elements of performance art in order to push for social change. Looking back to the 1960s and the counter-culture mindset of the times, I approach the histories of land, performance, and conceptual art through feminist studies. Then I apply the same feminist approach to philosophical histories of landscape, place, and space. Through a discussion of an extensive range of works by 25 artists, this research seeks to demonstrate the indelible influence of feminist art practice on contemporary art. It brings the work of an innovative generation of women artists—Marina Abramović, Eleanor Antin, Agnes Denes, VALIE EXPORT, Rebecca Horn, Leslie Labowitz, Suzanne Lacy, Ana Mendieta, Adrian Piper, Lotty Rosenfeld, Bonnie Ora Sherk, Beth Ames Swartz, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles—together with more recent work by artists who have adopted and extended their methods. These artists, both male and female, include Allora  &  Calzadilla, Francis  Alÿs, Angela Ellsworth, Ana Teresa Fernández, Maria  Hupfield, Saskia  Jordá, Christian Philipp Müller, Pope.L,  Sarah Cameron Sunde, Zhou Tao, and Antonia Wright. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Art History 2020

Initiée par la pratique artistique de l’auteur, cette thèse a pour premier objectif de saisir les qualités plastiques et esthétiques de l’aquarium, tant sous sa forme domestique et individuelle qu’à l’échelle des scénographies d’établissements publics. Le second est de déterminer ses rapports avec le monde subaquatique naturel, et son influence potentielle sur notre manière de percevoir ce milieu si particulier. Directement hérité du XIXe siècle, et pour ainsi dire ignoré de la recherche en dehors de l’aquariophilie, ce dispositif d’exposition se distingue par son ambiguïté. Il oscille constamment entre science, décoration et spectacle tout en prenant une infinité de formes, chacune engageant le spectateur de manière différente. Puisant des exemples dans les champs de l’art contemporain, de l’histoire de l’art, de la littérature comme des sciences naturelles, et impliquant constamment le travail plastique de l’auteur, la thèse s’organise en trois parties. À l’issue d’une approche historique, l’aquarium est d’abord défini comme dispositif écranique tenant à la fois du tableau et de la scène de théâtre avant d’apparaître dans un deuxième temps, au vu des éléments qui le composent, comme un jardin miniature. Loin de reproduire avec fidélité un site naturel donné, l’aquarium relève du domaine de l’art et de la création, héritant du maniérisme de la Renaissance, du courant pittoresque du XVIIIe siècle comme des jardins d’Extrême-Orient. Sans évolution marquante depuis son invention, le paysage dans l’aquarium apparaît enfin dans sa dimension nostalgique, grottes, ruines et autres fabriques renvoyant autant aux apocalypses légendaires qu’aux risques écologiques actuels. / Initiated with the author’s own artistic work, the first purpose of this thesis is to point out the plastic and aesthetic properties of the aquarium, in its household and unique form as much as in the scale of the scenographies used by the public aquariums. The second objective is to determine its connections with the natural state of the subaquatic world, and its influence over our way of perceiving this unique environment. Directly inherited from the XIXth century, and essentially ignored by the academic world, this exhibition device is characterized by its ambiguity. It constantly fluctuates between science, decoration and entertainment, while taking an infinite variety of forms, each one involving the spectator in a different way. Using examples in the fields of art, art history, literature, and natural sciences, but constantly linked to the author’s artistic work, this thesis is organized in three parts. After a brief historical approach of the aquarium, it is first defined as a display, a screen generating pictures, based on the model of the painting and the theater stage, and it appears then, considering its components, to be a miniature garden. Far from an accurate reproduction of a natural site, the aquarium falls under the field of art and creation, perpetuating the Mannerism of the Cinquecento, the theory of the picturesque developed in the XVIIIth century, or Chinese and Japanese traditional gardens. Without any major change since its invention, the land- or aquascape inside the aquarium finally projects a nostalgic piece of scenery - the ruins, grottoes and other follies referring to both legendary apocalypses and the current ecological peril.

The problem being considered in this paper is the alienation of the general viewer from contemporary art. Modern art has become less understandable than ever before to the non-art audience because it has, in many cases, ceased to deal with human-oriented subject matter, and has become detached from life. This paper examines ways in which modern art might be made more accessible to the world through the artists' use of emotion, intuition, intelligence, and other Humanistic elements as content for paintings. It contains a four-part proposal of what Humanist art is. The basic form is the use of rhetorical questions about modern art, leading one to more questions and to a broader, more open-minded attitude toward modern art.

In the 21st century, public museums who are collecting contemporary art has simultaneously begun to reframe the role of museums in society. Two museums – the Moderna Museet of Stockholm and M+ of Hong Kong that have completely different historic and geographic backgrounds, as well as operating models are now working closely with their acquisitions and collections to draw audience of old and new closer to them. These two museums that are located in the center of two well-defined cultures – geographically representing the west and the east, play vital roles in their respected social and cultural spheres. In view of how these two museums are responding to the present time by deploying art that are seemingly different in terms of theme and discipline, the immediate distinction that this study aims to frame is how the Moderna Museet, established in the 20th century and still prevailing in the present differ from M+ that comes from a younger generation of museums who proclaims itself as a museum of visual culture, and not art. Instead of analyzing their exhibitions, this study focuses on their policies of acquisitions, thus offering a perspective including many varying actors and networks. Hence Bruno Latour’s actor-network theories have been introduced to unfold the highly entangled networks of these two museums. Two important actants, the so-called acquisition policy and the institutional curators are taken into consideration in order to outline what constitute as acquisition policies of these two museums and investigate if the benchmarking of contemporary art, and in addition, if the notion of contemporaneity can be identified from written documents. Furthermore, this study is based on interviews with curators employed at the two museums to find out how the professionals have understood these policies and used them accordingly to justify their practices while fulfilling the museums’ missions. This study has found out there are many crucial relationships between these actants and that they are constantly interacting with each other. The strength and interaction of these relationships fostered the positioning for these two museums today and also determined how the knowledge of art can be shaped and dispensed to the public. Looking from the point of view of the history of museums, practices of donation and acquisition, late- capitalism, cultural differences between the west and east, this study provides a pragmatic explanation of how collections may transform the landscape of a museum, and in turn how a museum may perhaps alter the meaning of art.

I have been working on my Master degree work at art residenci in Gedok art centrum in Stuutgart,Germany. Thecollection of work is consist of approximately 15-20 works.Medium is painting, technique oil on canvas. The serie of paintings has different kind of measures, from 80x90cm to 200 x 200cm.

This study investigates the multiple occurrence of violent sacrificial imagery associated with animalistic and hunted bodies in the work of selected South African female artists as an articulation of the society in which the art was created. The theoretical framework of corporeal feminism is applied with reference to the postulations of George Bataille (1962), René Girard (1972) as well as Deleuze and Guattari (1984,1987), specifically with regard to the notion of becoming animal. This study shows how such imagery is used to act as a catalyst for social change by challenging Cartesian dualisms and forefronts certain issues applicable to women in a society that is patriarchal and violent. A comparison is made with the art of a selected group of Australian female artists who deal with similar themes and imagery from more or less the same timeframe. / Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2014. / tm2015 / Visual Arts / MA / Unrestricted