Introduction and interview by Alexandre Costanzo and Daniel Costanzo.
Between 2014 and 2019, Thomas Hirschhorn maintained a correspondence with the philosophers Alexandre Costanzo and Daniel Costanzo. During this period, when he was working on a number of emblematic projects (such as the exhibition Flamme Éternelle, organised at the Palais de Tokyo in 2014, and the Robert Walser Skulptur inaugurated in Bienne in 2019), these exchanges gave the Swiss artist the opportunity to clarify his working methods, sometimes to re-read his ambitions in the light of the production of a piece, and to clarify what he himself calls his ‘plans’. Here we find Hirschhorn's unique way of organising political, aesthetic and social thought, combining collective experiments in the visual arts with theoretical readings. There is always talk of art as a ‘struggle’, of the need to create works that respond to the principle of ‘non-satisfaction’, and of the need to remain ‘positive in the face of the hard core of reality’.
The book is introduced by an essay by Alexandre Costanzo and Daniel Costanzo, who isolate, reorganise and define the theoretical terms, methods and aesthetic strategies at work in Thomas Hirschhorn's work. It is accompanied by a rich iconographic section.
Thomas Hirschhorn is also the author of Une volonté de faire (2015), published by Macula.
256 pages
106 colour illustrations
4 black and white illustrations
Format : 17 x 23 cm
ISBN : 978-2-86589-162-7
