Torture Concrete - Jean-Luc Moulene and the Protocol of Abstraction (Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York September 7 - October 26 2014)

MOULENE, Jean-Luc ] Reza Negarestani

ISBN 10: 0983216975 / ISBN 13: 9780983216971

Published by Sequence Press, New York, 2014

Small 4to. in colour printed stiff card covers, 30pp, Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name in New York. Text in English . [CONDITION: NEW unread and unmarked copy ] . To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS. Seller Inventory # TN240381

Synopsis:

Essay inspired by conversations with the artist Jean-Luc Moulène addressing abstraction as a multifaceted project in the general domain of thought, and as a specific process of artistic experimentation.

The fruit of numerous conversations with the artist Jean-Luc Moulène, Reza Negarestani's essay addresses abstraction as a multi-faceted project in the general domain of thought, and as a specific process of artistic experimentation.

How can abstraction be so apparently ubiquitous in contemporary art, and yet so nebulously defined? “We have all heard of abstraction, but no one has ever seen one….” In Moulène's work, Negarestani discovers a renewal of the constitutive gesture of abstraction, rooted in the dialectic between form (mathematics) and sensible matter (physics). At once sensory, cognitive, and political, the disturbing force of the work compels us to reconnect the parochial art-historical notion of abstraction to a more comprehensive understanding of the term. Perhaps such a “formal cruelty of thought” is capable of “reactivating abstraction as a vector of disjunction and unity of art, philosophy, and science.”

Published by Sequence Press on the occasion of Jean-Luc Moulène's exhibition Torture Concrete, September 7–October 26, 2014, at Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York.

About the Author: Reza Negarestani is a philosopher. He has contributed extensively to journals and anthologies and lectured at numerous international universities and institutes. His current philosophical project is focused on rationalist universalism beginning with the evolution of the modern system of knowledge and advancing toward contemporary philosophies of rationalism, their procedures as well as their demands for special forms of human conduct.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Torture Concrete - Jean-Luc Moulene and the ...
Publisher: Sequence Press, New York
Publication Date: 2014
Binding: SOFTCOVER
Condition: New
Edition: 1st Edition.