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point d'ironie

The point d'ironie originated during a discussion between agnès b., Christian Boltanski and Hans-Ulrich Obrist. A hybrid periodical - half magazine, half poster. Invented by the French writer Alcanter de Brahm at the end of the 19th century, the point d'ironie is a punctuation mark, which can be used at the end of sentences to indicate to the reader the ironic phrases in the text.
Around 6 times per year, agnès b. and the curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist give carte blanche to an artist, architect, filmmaker, musician photographer, writer… to appropriate the space of the paper.
100,000 copies are available free of charge around the world (in bookshops, museums, galleries, schools, cafés, etc.), as well as in all of the agnès b. locations all over the world.


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Point d'ironie worldwide
In France, for the second year, the Point d'Ironie is invited by la Fiac. Join us from 22th to 25th October in the cour carrée of the Louvres. Available during the fair: #44 Hugues Reip & Melanie Counsell, #46 Carlos Cruz-Diez, #47 Koo Jeong-A, #48 Walid Raad.And it's #47 Koo Jeong-A issue which you can find at the 53th Venise Biennal, in the Asac (Archivio Storico delle Arti [... ]
A price for our Point d'Ironie
We are pleased and proud to share with all of you our satisfaction to receive the price of Artistic Directors' Club. It is a very important reward, which aim is to encourage creation and distinguish our work during the year 2008.www.leclubdesad.org/club/activites/selection40.php
N°47 - Koo Jeong-a
Born in Korea in 1967, Koo-Jeong-A now lives and works in London. In both her installations and more recently her photographs, Koo Jeong-A acts through small, discreet touches on daily life, taking the most commonplace-seeming things and surrounding them with a halo of unpredictable subjectivity. Her work plays on the ephemeral nature of her installations, and on their fragility and melancholy. [... ]
Point d'ironie at MUSAC's Showcase !
During 5 months, MUSAC's Showcases hosts a project focused on Point d'ironie, the publication established in 1997 by French fashion designer agnès b. in cooperation with Swiss curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and French artist Christian Boltanski. Roughly four times a year, an artist is granted full control of the Point D'Ironie paperscape in a hybrid publishing project: part magazine, part [... ]
n°46 - Carlos Cruz Diez
Carlos Cruz-Diez, born in 1923, in Caracas, Venezuela, lives and works in Paris. This venezuelan artist is considered a leading figure of kinetik art since its origins in the sixties. His reflection is about colour, and founds expression in an optical research of its spatial perception.Chromosaturation, Paris 1965"These works belong to the idea that “culture” has always started on a [... ]
n°45 - Robert Crumb
Born in Philadelphia in 1943, Robert Crumb is considered to be the founding father of the underground strip cartoon. He is recognized for his remarkable style, inspired by the work of turn-of-the-century cartoon artists, and for his critical and satirical vision. Blues music and jazz, drugs, sex, fantasy and politics… his art work holds up a mirror to the history of the contemporary world.
 
 

 
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