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Carnet
Paperback
European ArtIndividual Artists
Publisher: Atopon Books
Published: Dec 5 2023
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: French
French-American artist Marc Fichou invites us on a fascinating journey into his creative process with this publication of his Carnet, or Notebook, one of many he has filled with the thoughts, puzzles, and lines of inquiry that have guided his work over the years in a variety of media, from video installation to sculpture and painting. This book lies in between image and text, philosophy and art, nature and artifice, the human and the technical - not to mention French and English, even diary and fiction. Do we look at it or read it? Or do we practice both at once, wrestling with the differences between seeing and thinking, contemplation and action, beauty and truth? Fichou takes this ambivalent experience as a starting point for explorations of a personhood that, defined since Descartes as a subjective inner life (core or essence) we control and express, feels increasingly decentered, networked, and cybernetic. His book is filled with paradoxes that for him attend this spatiotemporal change: Mobius strips, infinite sets, hypercubes, Torus shapes, and feedback loops all point to the emergent possibilities that exist for people who no longer exactly know themselves through traditional categories of identity, intention, autonomy. . .and indeed art itself.
L'artiste franco-américain Marc Fichou nous invite à un voyage fascinant au sein de son processus créatif avec cette publication de Carnet, un carnet parmi les nombreux qu'il a rempli de pensées, questionnements, et recherches qui ont guidé son travail sur les années dans une variété de médiums, de l'installation vidéo à la sculpture et la peinture. Ce livre se situe entre l'image et le texte, la philosophie et l'Art, la nature et l'artifice, l'humain et la technique (sans mentionner le français et l'anglais), et même entre le journal intime et la fiction. Le regarde-t-on ou le lit-on ? Ou pratiquons-nous les deux à la fois, confrontant les différences entre voir et penser, la contemplation et l'action, la beauté et la vérité ? Fichou prend cette expérience ambivalente comme le point de départ d'explorations d'une identité individuelle, définie depuis Descartes comme vie intérieure subjective (noyau ou essence) que nous contrôlons et exprimons, qui se ressent de plus en plus comme décentrée, en réseau et cybernétique. Son livre est rempli de paradoxes, qui pour lui témoignent de ce changement spatio-temporel: des rubans de Moebius, des ensembles infinis, des hypercubes, des formes en tore, des boucles de rétroaction; tous pointent vers les possibilités émergentes qui existent pour ceux qui ne se reconnaissent plus tout à fait dans les catégories traditionnelles de l'identité, de l'intention, de l'autonomie ... et d'ailleurs de l'art lui-même.
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