Entrée libre, the cultural program on the France 5 channel, dropped in on IESA’s symposium on American painting to gather footage and an interview with Pierre Sterckx for its report on Action painting.
IESA arts&culture was delighted to welcome the Entrée libre team during its symposium devoted to the two great figures of American painting: Edward Hopper and Jackson Pollock. They came to capture footage of the symposium to show the still-relevant importance of Jackson Pollock in contemporary art studies, at a time when two institutions, the Fundació Miró in Barcelona and the Tate Modern in London, were devoting exhibitions to Action painting.
Pierre Sterckx, art critic, exhibition curator, and professor at IESA, spoke as part of our symposium. France 5 interviewed him at length about the main characteristics of Jackson Pollock’s painting and his influence on the generations of artists who followed. His reflections punctuate the report and show how much this artist’s way of painting and his works marked a genuine break.
The international symposium "American Painting. Hopper, Pollock and Their Legacy" was organized by IESA arts&culture on January 11 and 12, 2013. It brought together different generations of researchers, art historians, artists, art critics, museum curators, and philosophers from the United States, Belgium, England, Italy, Greece, and France. The speakers addressed themes such as landscape, the body, narration, pictorial language, and chaos.
> Watch the video "Pollock: I Am Nature": talk by Demosthènes Davvetas, artist, philosopher, and culture advisor to the 1st Minister of the Hellenic Republic