Polemical Relations

Eric Troncy and Nicolas Bourriaud have had a decisive influence on curatorship and art criticism in France since the late 1980s. The publication of their respective essays allows for an appreciation of their crucial contribution in favor of contemporary art, particularly through the journal Documents which they co-founded in 1992. The polemical tone of their texts and their defense of French and international artists has elicited rejection and admiration no less than suspicion. Yet no one can..