"The reigning ideas are the ideas of the ruling class"

Brecht

To present 'art against ideology' in this quintessential ideological place, a Parisian gallery, is either an imposture or an internal contradiction that must be explained.
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How can one be an artist today? In three ways. There are those who perpetuate the "beautiful craft" of painting or sculpting, and they refine on the form, the color, the surface conditions, in the hope that the work will sell well, that it will worthily adorn a bourgeois salon. There are those who express their little
"Me", and it goes from splashing in the material to chewing madeleines, to asking for a personal salvation in the search for lost time or in the fight against death, and that is not nothing, we all have bodies, we will die, "expressing" is always a bit better than defecating in beauty.

 

Finally, there are those who wonder if, under the reign of Kapital, being an artist is still worth the trouble, they are not sure about it but they are not sure either that ceasing to be an artist would be much worse, they do not want to give up the field to the opponent, they are not unaware that the "beau métier" of some and the "Me" of all are the fallouts of a reigning ideology, nor that art is the product of the "artistic market", with its backshops, museum, gallery, Maison de la Culture, the lecturer, the critic; and then, this critic, he can make him want to drop his high fashion style, like ! 'Child Jesus when the Virgin Mary administered his spanking to him, the desire to appear with his face uncovered as he is, like a cog in the slot machine, like I support a promotion expected by the gallery quite cunning to allow him to rant against the system of galleries, by thereby giving itself a head start in its competitive struggle against other galleries ; and the artists who know that, who do not hide either the gallery’s calculations or the obscene power of the uncouth critic, these artists think that it is time for them to let go of their own nimbe lentive of sacrosanct beauty, that it is time and great time for the art of "telling the truth about art", this is called sociological art.

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Sociological art: an artistic practice that tends to question art, on the one hand by relating it to its ideological, socio-economic and political context, on the other hand by drawing attention to its communication channels (or non-communication), to its dissemination circuits (or occultation), on their possible disruption and subversion.

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Philosopher, writer, co-founder at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne of the UER of visual arts and sciences of art (today the School of arts of the Sorbonne), Bernard Teyssèdre has deployed his activity in several fields ranging from literary and artistic creation to aesthetic theory and history of art.