Catherine Strasser

Catherine Strasser
Period: 1987-1989
Profession: Art historian During her classical training at the École du Louvre and the Sorbonne, Catherine Strasser became involved in the analysis of contemporary art, publishing articles in the magazines
Flash art international ,
Artistes ,
L’Ane ,
Arte factum ,
Art-press … and contributing to numerous exhibition catalogs and collective works. During her stay at Villa Medici (1987-89), she studied the relationship between the Italian avant-garde of the 60s and art history. She met its main protagonists, including Lucianno Fabro, Giulio Paolini, Giuseppe Pennone and especially Jannis Kounellis, who lives in Rome. On her return to France, marked by the multidisciplinary experience of the Villa Médicis, she turned part of her research towards the relationships maintained by the various artistic disciplines in the context of modernity. She published
Cirque. Pour un monde nouveau (Paris, 1991) and a first essay on the economics of artistic work
L
e Temps de la production (Strasbourg, 1996). While writing several monographs (from Anselm Kiefer to Fabrice Hyber and Loris Gréaud), in 1997 she founded the magazine
Le
travail de l’art , devoted to the writings of creators in all disciplines, which she directs. It features seminal texts by visual artists, architects, composers, filmmakers, writers and choreographers, accompanied by all the materials used in their research : notes, sketches, scores… Deepening her reflection on the concepts and practices of ‘work’ in the modern arts, in 2006 she published
Du travail de l’art. O
bservation des œuvres et analyse du processus qui les conduits, a work that spans a century and a half of production in the visual arts
. Her latest book,
Le Rapport des forces
–
Kounellis à Chaumont-sur-Loire , synthesizes the research that led her from her Roman study to her theory of the work of art.