The 80s: a topology

Abstract

This catalogue of an exhibition of 'The 80s: a topology' provides an outlook onto a decade of artistic creation without presuming to be fully representative of the period in question. This exhibition focuses on artists and works whose distinctive character draws precisely from their taking up many of the problems emphasised by the various preceding vanguards.

Contents

Preface / João Fernandes -- Introduction: the evidence of art / Ulrich Loock -- The beginning of the eighties / Julian Heynen with Ulrich Loock -- Le declin de l'empire occidental / Pier Luigi Tazzi -- The Artwork -- the work / Alain Cueff -- A feedback of silence: considering the eighties / Denys Zacharapoulos -- The image-object and the model of nature / Jean-François Chevier -- The "eighties" in construction: difference and indifference / Abigail Solomon-Godreau -- The Portuguese situation / Eduardo Paz Barroso . [and others].