2013-01-01
HEY! modern art & pop culture Part II
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Category: Coffee-table books Collection: Art catalog (fine books) Edited by Anne & Julien Bilingual (French / English) 256 pages 3 papers Shaped hardback cover 30 x 30 cm Published by ANKAMA / 619 59 artists, 4 private collections Exhibition catalog Guest curator: Anne Richard (HEY! modern art & pop culture) Musée de La Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, France. Exhibition from January 25 to August 23, 2013 HEY! OUTSIDER POP A GLOBAL AND DYNAMIC ART, IGNORED OR QUESTIONED YESTERDAY, OBSERVED AND COLLECTED TODAY. Since the 1940s, the dialogue between countercultures and the modern pop culture has generated a worldwide constellation of distinct contemporary art movements: pop surrealism, lowbrow and post lowbrow, comic books, street art and graffiti, neo pop figurative, tattoo art, poster art (...). In 2010, for the creation of the magazine, Anne & Julien decided to create a term crystallizing under a single banner the globality and complexity of these artistic families: «OUTSIDER POP». L’outsider pop must be seen as a synthesis of the new pop contemporary figurative arts. Gathered under this term, we recognize these artists by: - a treatment uniquely figurative ; an inspiration drawn from popular culture and/or countercultures ; - the choice to express outside the formal and dominant schools of the moment (conceptual art / abstraction) - a challenge to the hierarchical borders separating the Great Art from the popular culture (scholar Art and the knowledge called self-taught). « Our ambition is shared by all the artists we support. For we are not people giving in to hype, concerned with flash in the pan, transient actions only for effect. We are involved in a long-term process with many years of experimenting and expertise of the field behind us. We are situated at the crossroads between highbrow and pop cultures, at the very point of merger of formal knowledge, self-learning and popular intelligence. Supporting and spreading is our prime purpose, our badge of honour, our ideal, our poetic claim”. Anne Richard (2015)
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