« Histoire de l’Art »
My « Histoire de l’Art » [Art History] was recently published by the Coherent States label based in Athens, Greece.
« Histoire de l’Art » receives catalogue number CS.44, and it is available as a digital download, but also as a carefully crafted and packed CDR.
The official release date is July 14th, 2022. In France that is a national holiday. Bastille Day, the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille two hundred and thirty three years ago, on July 14th 1789. The then there political prison, a symbol of autocratic cruelty, was stormed by (let’s say) the people, and subsequently destructed: it’s what got the French Revolution going.
Nowadays the Place de la Bastille is a vast, polluted and dusty roundabout. Not a single stone of the former prison remains. At its very centre rises the so-called July Column, 47 meters high, crowned by a nude golden angel standing on one leg on top of a gilded globe: the “Spirit of Freedom” (Génie de la Liberté). And yes, yes! Our génie indeed makes a fist, he is jumping and crying, he is dancing bizarre…!
The history of art is a history of repetition.
Like the history of man, like the history of worlds.
