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The exercise is obviously perilous because about 230 years separate us from the French Revolution. However, it is very likely that if they were to look at copyright today, De Boufflers, Le Chapelier, Lakanal and the philosophers of the Enlightenment who theorized on the subject in the 18th century would be saddened by the fate […]

One day I was painting, black had invaded the whole surface of the canvas, without forms, without contrasts, without transparencies. In that extreme, I saw in a way the negation of black. Pierre Soulage understood that, thrust in its extremities, black can be the price of every temptation. Surely Anish Kapoor had his words in […]

A photomontage published in the cover of a well known magazine called « Le Point », reproduced an Alain Aslan’s sculpture of a bust of Marianne,  a sculpture that depicts the figurhead of the Republic as of Brigitte Bardot, drowning in the seas, under the the heading “wreckers” and the subheading “Corporatists, untouchables, reform killers, lepéno-cégétistes*…. (…) […]