Théo Mercier: Possession of the world is not my priority.
Dilecta| N° d'inventaire | 23174 |
| Format | 22 x 30 |
| Détails | 304 p., publisher's canvas binding. |
| Publication | Paris, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782373720822 |
Théo Mercier's studio and Éditions Dilecta are working together on the artist's monograph project to compile an inventory of his prolific output, which is particularly interesting in that the artist brings to the French contemporary art scene a field of specific interventions that opens the boundaries of the visual arts properly speaking. Coming from engineering studies (and not from the classic Fine Arts course), the artist allows himself everything in his interventions: he flirts with performance and sound production, frees himself from good taste, shamelessly draws from cultures that are not his own, seizes the most trivial materials that he mixes with the noblest, crosses eras without fear of anachronism...
Théo Mercier's studio and Éditions Dilecta are working together on the artist's monograph project to compile an inventory of his prolific output, which is particularly interesting in that the artist brings to the French contemporary art scene a field of specific interventions that opens the boundaries of the visual arts properly speaking. Coming from engineering studies (and not from the classic Fine Arts course), the artist allows himself everything in his interventions: he flirts with performance and sound production, frees himself from good taste, shamelessly draws from cultures that are not his own, seizes the most trivial materials that he mixes with the noblest, crosses eras without fear of anachronism...