“The Mediterranean landscape, the construction of their history as the experience of aesthetic adventure are fertilized by migration, nomadism, business meetings and geographical (Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean). In this perspective, makes this brief essay of first account of a poetics at work in the Mediterranean, then a representation where excess is manifested a taste of Mediterranean artists for the art of opposites. the landscapes appear, finally, as the platform form of meetings, like a sea crossings between the images, texts and sounds with space and its expression would be here, custodians, and the mirror tree. “
Logique de la mappemonde, note sur l’espace (pourquoi méditerranéen ?) is accompanied by a portfolio of photographs of Florence Chevallier, Bernard Guillot, François Méchain, Corinne Mercadier, Bernard Plossu and film clips of photograms of Godard and Jean–Daniel Pollet.
Coproducer
La Box - Ecole des Beaux arts de Bourges
Released
05/07/2012
Collection
Hors Collection
Format
170 x 240
Français
Broché
11 photos colors
64 pages
ISBN : 978-2-35046-251-6
Press review
- 23/11/2012 Du jour au lendemain par Alain Veinstein (France Culture)
- 15/01/2013 Alexandre Castant par Yannick Vigouroux (critique.org)
- 01/06/2014 Logique de la mappemonde par Sophie Orlando (Critique d'art)
- 13/11/2012 Alexandre Castant par Damien Sausset (Le quotidien de l'art)
- 30/08/2012 Alexandre Castant à France Culture (Pas la peine crier)
Alexandre Castant
Auteur
Essayist, art critic, Alexandre Castant has published works on André Pieyre de Mandiargues (Esthétique de l’image, fictions de Mandiargues, 2001), photography (Noire et blanche by Man Ray, 2003; Photography in the eye des passages, 2004; Ecrans de neige, 2014), sound creation and visual arts (Planetes Sonores, 2007; Audiobiographical Journal, 2016; Les Arts Sonores, 2017) or the imagination (ImagoDrome, mental images in the contemporary art, collective, 2010). He is also the author of a short story collection (Death of Athanasius Shurail, 2019).
