Année : 2020

STAMP YOUE EMAILS !

                     

Lily Woodruff publishes at Duke University Press a remarkable book on French artists of the 1960s-1970s who challenged the power and legitimacy of art institutions in questioning, subversive and alternative practices. She analyzes the work of the Groupe de recherche en art visuels – le GRAV, of Daniel Buren, André Cadéré and the Collectif d’art sociologique. She demonstrates an exceptional knowledge of the intellectual debates of the time, from Guy Debord (La société du spectacle et l’Internationale situationniste) to Jean-François Lyotard (La condition postmoderne) including Edgar Morin, Maoism, Wilhelm Flusser and so many other leading actors of the debates of this effervescent period. 

As far as the Collectif d’art sociologique is concerned, she analyses with great finesse the points of rapprochement and the divergences of the artists who constituted it, in relation to other artists of this period, notably from body art, as well as the analyses by the major art critics Pierre Restany, François Pluchart, Otto Hanh and Jean-Marc Poinsot. 

The challenge was, especially for an American art historian,  ambitious, the conflicts of ideas and people difficult to untangle and she takes it up in a limpid writing with a lot of finesse and objectivity. Being myself concerned, quoted and my work evoked and analysed, l give Lily Woodruff satisfaction for the attention she paid to my theoretical and artistic approaches and the accuracy of her words. 

A very original, striking, lucid, balanced and fair book, which depicts an important moment in the history of art and ideas in France when the rebellion of May 1968 broke out.

At 1979, after some travels to the South American Forest I planned an Archive dedicated to Amazon to highlight by some art projects (*) the systematic destruction perpetrated by landed proprietors with the connivance of the some governments to build the sadly “famous” trans-Amazonian highroads – real deep cuts on the forest’s skin – and for a devastating plan of industrial agriculture which has “taken flash off” the forest. Forest which has not finished crying, has not ended to be sacrificed to favour also today the more wicked interests of unscrupulous persons.

After 40 years the AMAZON ARCHIVE invites you to send one or more works dedicated to this theme exclusively by post.

Intervene as you like, on one on more leaves picked on the ground
max size: 30×40 cms
free technique
deadline: December 31th 2020

The idea is to create an installation (a space/forest) with the help of the mail artist community.
The works will remain in the Amazon Archive
Online documentation and in the Juliet art-magazine.

Send to:
AMAZON
ARCHIVE OF ARTISTIC WORKS AND PROJECT
ABOUT THE AMAZONIC WORLD.
c/o RUGGERO MAGGI – C.SO SEMPIONE 67
20149 – MILANO – ITALY –

On the back of the work indicate your data and email address (data that you will send me also by email to maggiruggero@gmail.com)

Please spread this call to all your contacts …
THE AMAZON MUST LIVE
THANKS and good job!

Keep in touch.
Ruggero

(*) 1979 “Amazon” at Spazio Sixtonotes, the first Mail Art exhibition in Milan
     1980 “Amazonic Trip” Universidad Catolica di Lima, the first exhibition of Mail Art in Perù
     1981 “Amazonic High Ways” XVI Biennale di San Paolo (Brazil)

Notre seule boussole dans le chaos planétaire de la crise, et qui ne se trompe JAMAIS: l’éthique planétaire.
 

 le Centre culturel canadien vous ouvre ses portes pour la Nuit Blanche ! De 19h à 23h, venez visiter notre exposition Image… envoyée : une production exceptionnelle pour célébrer les 50 ans du CCC.

Au programme : 36 projets photographiques inédits d’artistes majeurs de la scène contemporaine canadienne ainsi qu’un volet citoyen regroupant 50 photographies envoyées par des citoyens et citoyennes du Canada et de France.

Né du confinement, ce projet propose le nouveau regard d’artistes professionnels comme amateurs, qui nous offrent une vision actuelle et personnelle de leur monde. Les artistes canadiens et canadiennes envoient vers la France un aperçu de leur univers, au Canada. L’exposition rend aussi hommage, par la réciprocité de sa composante citoyenne, à l’amitié Canada-France à travers des photographies prises par des citoyens et citoyennes de France pour le Canada, et par des citoyens et citoyennes du Canada pour la France.

Artistes invités : Jocelyne Alloucherie, Stephen Andrews, Sara Angelucci, Ming Arcand & Denys Arcand, IAIN BAXTER& (the &man), Robert Bean, Dominique Blain, Marie-Claire Blais, Dianne Bos, Michel Campeau, Bertrand Carrière, Millie Chen, Serge Clément, Robin Collyer, Louis Couturier & Jacky G. Lafargue, Donigan Cumming, Stan Douglas, Pascal Grandmaison, Angela Grauerholz, Adad Hannah, Isabelle Hayeur, Geoffrey James, Mark Lewis, Jimmy Manning, Aude Moreau, Nadia Myre, Ian Paterson, Ed Pien, Michael Snow, Lisa Steele & Kim Tomczak, Jana Sterbak, Public Studio (Elle Flanders & Tamira Sawatzky), Adrian Stimson,Diana Thorneycroft, Michèle Waquant, Johannes Zits

Avec un projet spécial et pan canadien de Geoffrey James
Avec une composante citoyenne Canada-France réunissant 50 participants dont une contribution spéciale de l’artiste franco-canadien Hervé Fischer

Commissaire : Catherine Bédard