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CACN - Centre d'Art Contemporain de Nîmes•May 16, 2025 — Jul 19, 2025
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On April 25, 2025, painter Nicolas Chardon posted a text on social media calling on art critics to awaken from their intellectual slumber regarding painting, which is often fetishized and treated as an untouchable, immanent technique. He also urged painters to stop complaining about their so-called invisibility.
This debate echoes those raised in 2023 by art historian Larne Abse Gogarty, the year before by critic Barry Schwabsky, and earlier by journalist Alex Greenberger - all skeptical about the intense popularity of figuration among young artists, and puzzled by their lack of awareness of the complex debates surrounding post-abstraction figurative painting.
Chardon’s diatribe may ring familiar to critics and curators: when speaking with painters, both established and emerging, one often encounters silence - or outrage - when asking, “Why painting? And how?”
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Plastik
CACN - Centre d'Art Contemporain de Nîmes•May 16, 2025 — Jul 19, 2025
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On April 25, 2025, painter Nicolas Chardon posted a text on social media calling on art critics to awaken from their intellectual slumber regarding painting, which is often fetishized and treated as an untouchable, immanent technique. He also urged painters to stop complaining about their so-called invisibility.
This debate echoes those raised in 2023 by art historian Larne Abse Gogarty, the year before by critic Barry Schwabsky, and earlier by journalist Alex Greenberger - all skeptical about the intense popularity of figuration among young artists, and puzzled by their lack of awareness of the complex debates surrounding post-abstraction figurative painting.
Chardon’s diatribe may ring familiar to critics and curators: when speaking with painters, both established and emerging, one often encounters silence - or outrage - when asking, “Why painting? And how?”
Some painting studios in...More
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