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Counterculture, 05 December 2019

SUBTRACTION CHRONICLES Episode 8 – Scenes of Ordinary Destruction

Chronicle by Jean-Baptiste Farkas

Summary
Is destruction a corollary for art? Is it not supposed to be the opposite of creation? Since the dawn of time, humanity has made and unmade. But when artists destroy what they have produced, the stakes are not the same. For better or worse.

Since 2000, French artist Éric Watier has been crafting an inventory of destruction, collecting art works generally destroyed at the hands of their authors. The book, Tout l’inventaire des destructions (An entire inventory of destruction), was published in 20181. The book compiles 200 cases, such as: In 1861, Paul Cézanne writes to Émile Zola: “I…

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