Photo : Sophie Bassouls
Debate: 'The Conspiracy of Art', 30 years after Jean Baudrillard's tribune
Has contemporary art truly sold its soul to pure market speculation, just as Baudrillard famously feared decades ago? Immerse yourself in a sharp-witted debate where leading minds dissect the thin line between meaningful expression and staged insignificance. Whether you're an art critic at heart or a curious wanderer, this session promises to shake up your perspective on the current cultural landscape.
Galerie Area (Paris 10th)
About
«The whole duplicity of contemporary art is there: to claim nullity, insignificance, nonsense, to aim at nullity when one is already null. To aim at nonsense when one is already insignificant.»
On May 20, 1996, Jean Baudrillard published in Libération «The Conspiracy of Art», a polemical tribune that denounced the claimed nullity and the connivance of contemporary art with the market. According to him, art had lost its power of critical illusion to become nothing more than the staging of its own emptiness, accepted and celebrated by a complicit public. This stone in the pond created a shockwave and heated debates among artists, critics, and institutional figures of the time.
Thirty years later, during the full crisis of the art market, as financial speculation and digital proliferation are redefining the artistic landscape, the question remains burning: has contemporary art definitively dissolved into merchandise and insignificance?
Speakers
François L'Yvonnet: philosophy professor, publisher, and essayist
Rémy Aron: painter and President of the MDA
Alin Avila: art critic, publisher, and exhibition curator
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