La belle revue - 2016

—» Introduction
by Julie Portier

Here, in the appropriate forum for justifying the pertinence of an editorial line, we could have abstained from this convention to unceremoniously dish you up – like…

—» Pauline Curnier Jardin - La Femme aux mille tours
by Marie Bechetoille

Pauline Curnier Jardin is a storyteller, her projects most often take the form of installations, combining video, sculpture, performance, and painting. Like Ulysses’ use of metis [cunning], Pauline Curnier…

—» Un muy high grotesque :Neo-Mexicanism and Chicano Art in the 1980s
by Annabela Tournon

Identified through various movements restoring the humanist notion of painting (whose death certificate had nonetheless been duly signed by the picture artists group and its

—» « We are the archive magazine of tacos » Interview with Jonas Delaborde
by Franck Balland

While the grotesque contributes, as Véronique Klauber notes in her definition, “the confirmation of the instability of everything”¹, then the forces that animate the work of Jonas Delaborde…

—» Like tourists in ancient Pompeii: notes on the digital grotesque
by Jill Gasparina

“I love my web

And that's a fact

Guess while this loads

I’ll grab a snack”¹

The grotesque…