Avez-vous manqué la conférence de Daniel Sturgis, professeur de peinture (University of the Arts London, Camberwell College of Arts) et Mick Finch, professeur de pratique des arts visuels (University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins) dans le cadre de l'exposition Supports/Surfaces. Notre collection à l'affiche? La discussion a été enregistrée et est maintenant disponible en ligne.
This presentation showed how the cultural and material specificity of abstract painting was used by the artists associated with Supports/Surfaces to escape from more dominant Northern European and American traditions. This artistic approach, which questioned abstraction through a politicised practice based on subverting convention and materiality, could be seen to connect with work by other artists working simultaneously and to similar ends in Italy and North Africa. We brought up questions that arose in these related contexts, in terms of feminism and post-colonisation, which enriched our understanding of Supports/Surfaces and the histories of abstract painting in Europe during this period more generally.