Dos filósofos conversan sobre la situación del arte en la actualidad: lo que quiere decir de hoy en adelante, lo que, lejos de ser una palabra anticuada, nos permite reflexionar de nuevo. El elaborado pensamiento de Jean-Luc Nancy sobre este tema es retomado y también continuado en el curso de una discusión en la que Lèbre se interroga con él sobre la mejor manera de aprehender el comprom…
Eleven conversations taken from as many issues of Fata Morgana. Eleven conversations which synthesize the project behind the journal which was born in spring 2006. At the time it was decided against having an editorial comment because of the conviction that if the journal was going to succeed it would speak for itself. However, the time has come to say a few words. A journal is first and foremo…
Originally written for an exhibition Jean-Luc Nancy curated at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon in 2007, this book addresses the medium of drawing in light of the question of form—of form in its formation, as a formative force, as a birth to form. In this sense, drawing opens less toward its achievement, intention, and accomplishment than toward a finality without end and the infinite renewal …
This book examines the practice of portraits as a way in to grasping the paradoxes of subjectivity. To Nancy, the portrait is suspended between likeness and strangeness, identity and distance, representation and presentation, exactitude and forcefulness. It can identify an individual, but it can also express the dynamics by means of which its subject advances and withdraws.The book consists of …