prucca - devenir minéral - book signing arles

During the opening week of Les Rencontres d’Arles festival, Giuliana Prucca, founder and artistic director of AVARIE, is thrilled to sign her book Devenir minéral, a critical essay on mineral matter in art and literature, published by L’éditeur du dimanche.

Looking forward to meeting you on Thursday, July 4, at 3 pm, at La Librairie du Palais, 10 rue du Plan de la Cour, Arles.

Echoing Jean Dubuffet's idea that thought should arise from material in artistic practice, Giuliana Prucca reinterprets a moment in the history of 20th-century art using materials such as stone, sand, earth, and dust to illustrate that the creative act would be a trace of the body's disappearance.
Building on Antonin Artaud's influence, she establishes critical and poetic connections between the texts and works of various artists, writers, and thinkers, spanning from Dubuffet to Fabre, Kiefer, Klein, Gutaï, Bousquet, Bryen, Ponge, Bachelard, Deleuze, Bataille, and Warburg. Questioning the arbitrary linearity of a conventionally assimilated art history, she applies the principles of poetry to criticism, creating a critically inventive approach that celebrates anti-critique.
The essay disrupts traditional reading habits and challenges the conservatism of art criticism by inhabiting writing space differently, providing a physically engaging experience.

Giuliana Prucca | Devenir minéral | L'éditeur du dimanche, Paris, 2023

to purchase the book ︎︎︎ please contact us info@avarie-publishing.com or the publisher destribatsf@gmail.com

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