Atelier A

Created by the artist François Arnal in 1969, Atelier A disappeared in 1975. This adventure, which lasted only six years, is unique and romantic, dazzling and restive, carried out with enthusiasm and improvisation, on the fringes and at the heart of a pivotal era. As François Arnal says today: “I believe that the idea of ​​Atelier A is the fruit of both a long maturation in my work as an artist and the thunderbolt of May ’68.” The actors, artists and designers who participated in the Atelier A adventure, the list of whom is long and prestigious, have never testified, and the media so quick to seize the subject, as shown by the abundant press reviews of the time, turned away from it overnight. François Arnal was himself the most obstinate in hiding this crucible of research, this laboratory of transversalities so prized today, which, following Marcel Duchamp and the experiments of the early 1960s, made it possible to apply and to put into practice the decompartmentalization of art, and to affirm the artist as a social actor in his own right.

• 23 x 30.5 cm
• 192 pages
• 290 color illustrations
• ISBN: 9-782909-283814

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