Painting Criticism or Painting as Criticism
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(Re)seeing Painting
Spring Summer 2021
This features dedicated to painting is part of an attempt to encourage critical analyses of painting practices. While presenting a selection of articles that attest to the diversity of aesthetic and conceptual approaches to this art form, (Re)seeing Painting puts forward some considerations of the different strategies deployed in art practices or dissemination networks. Though pictorial research may remain central to painters, some of them use their works as formidable tools of empowerment or protest, as a means to critically examine society.
Editorial
Feature
The Reactualization of Painting in Digital Times
Too Hard: Gay Figurative Painting’s Gimmicks
The Afterlife’s Painting
Narrative Bodies and Intimacy in Contemporary Figurative Painting
Damien Cadio, Des horizons
Painting in a Transitory Realm: Vincent Larouche and the Effects of Digital Culture
Listening to Pictorial Material
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Current Issue
Immersion
Winter 2026
This issue is interested in all forms of immersion in contemporary art. How are artists critically engaging with immersive technologies? Conversely, what kinds of practices are challenging technology in their pursuit of immersion? How are these experiences breaking down the boundaries between spectator, body, and art? We put forward proposals that rely on listening and sustained attention rather than on amplification and sensory overload – works using devices that are sometimes relatively simple and non-invasive, sometimes a little more elaborate, but in which participation is, with a few nuances, neither passive nor devoid of critical thinking.
Cover: doux soft club
bleu de lieu, 2023-2024.
Photo: Cléo Sjölander, courtesy of the artists