Sociological art

The sociological art is an artistic movement, even a method of research artistic, developed as from 1971 with Paris, by Herve Fischer, Fred Forest and Jean-Paul Thénot, which founded in 1974 the “collective of sociological art” and published a series of proclamations (published in the newspaper Le Monde ).

Sociological art 1: Socio-economic art and its structures. Gallery Germain, Paris
Art sociologgic 2: Problems and methods of the sociological art, Gallery Mathias Fels, and Museum Galliéra, Paris.
Sociological art 3: Art and communication, French Institute of Köln, Germany and catalog Biennale de Venise, June 1976.
Sociological art 4: Art and economy were published in 1976.
Sociological art (Act II) signed Fred Forest Le Monde 2/7/1980 N° 10894

They created “the interrogative sociological school” taken part together and individually with international demonstrations and the movement east dissolves in 1980 in the dissension. Many art authors and critics refer there, in particular François Pluchart, Bernard Tesseydre, Pierre Restany, Wilhelm Flusser, Rainer Wick. One will find on the Web sites of Herve Fischer and Fred Forest of many bibliographical references.

The movement of sociological art was largely followed per many artists since, in his spirit so not with the letter. And it is always very living today. It is obviously precursory art known as “relational” theorized by Nicolas Bourriaud at the end of the years 1990. He dissociated Conceptual art, and to “Art Language”, approached the “Body art”. It crossed contextual art “”. It was radical in its criticism of the ideology of avant-garde of the years 1970-80, and in its dispute of the institutions and the market of Article.

Fred Forest continued his work under the sign of “the esthetics of the communication”, and Herve Fischer with the mythanalyse and the exposures “Images of the future” to Montreal.

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