{"id":68105,"date":"2025-11-04T16:24:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-arson.fr\/programmation\/agenda\/conference-de-morgan-labar-bete-comme-un-peintre\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T16:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:41:13","slug":"conference-de-morgan-labar-bete-comme-un-peintre","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/new.villa-arson.fr\/en\/programmation\/agenda\/conference-de-morgan-labar-bete-comme-un-peintre\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture by Morgan Labar: \u2018As dumb as a painter\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"749\" src=\"https:\/\/villa-arson.fr\/app\/uploads\/2025\/11\/morgan-labar-1-1024x749.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-68076\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.villa-arson.fr\/app\/uploads\/2025\/11\/morgan-labar-1-1024x749.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/new.villa-arson.fr\/app\/uploads\/2025\/11\/morgan-labar-1-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.villa-arson.fr\/app\/uploads\/2025\/11\/morgan-labar-1-768x562.jpg 768w, https:\/\/new.villa-arson.fr\/app\/uploads\/2025\/11\/morgan-labar-1-396x290.jpg 396w, https:\/\/new.villa-arson.fr\/app\/uploads\/2025\/11\/morgan-labar-1-600x439.jpg 600w, https:\/\/new.villa-arson.fr\/app\/uploads\/2025\/11\/morgan-labar-1.jpg 1199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 16 December 2025, Villa Arson will host a lecture by Morgan Labar, historian and art critic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This lecture offers a reinterpretation of the episode sometimes referred to as the \u2018return of painting\u2019 in the 1980s, which should really be written in the plural \u2013 returns of painting. Duchamp&#8217;s adage \u2018stupid as a painter\u2019, hastily reduced to an anathema on the painting of his time, served as a rallying cry for artists who held sway and filled the columns of Artforum in the 1970s and considered the death of painting \u2013 or at least its dialectical surpassing \u2013 a foregone conclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The art of the 1980s emerged as a violent reaction to this scholarly narrative of modernity. Painting returned to the forefront after a decade of (relative) purgatory. Anti-intellectualism was asserted as a joyful and pleasurable antidote to conceptual austerity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this talk, Morgan Labar will look back on this decade in painting, discussing the history of exhibitions (Venice Biennale, Documenta) and delving into a few movements that cultivated stupidity in painting (Figuration Libre, Bad Painting, M\u00fclheimer Freiheit).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Morgan Labar<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Morgan Labar is a graduate of the \u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure, with a degree in philosophy and a PhD in art history from Paris 1 Panth\u00e9on-Sorbonne University. For several years, he has been interested in how aesthetic categories, canons and hegemonic discourses are constructed within the worlds of contemporary art. He is an associate member of the SACRe laboratory (EA 7410, PSL University) and the THALIM joint research unit (UMR 7172, ENS \u2013 Sorbonne Nouvelle \u2013 CNRS) and is developing a research activity that has been supported in particular by the annual postdoctoral fellowship from the Terra Foundation for American Art at the Institut National d&#8217;Histoire de l&#8217;Art (INHA). He has recently published La Gloire de la B\u00eatise. R\u00e9gression et superficialit\u00e9 dans les arts depuis la fin des ann\u00e9es 1980 (The Glory of Stupidity: Regression and Superficiality in the Arts since the Late 1980s) with Les presses du r\u00e9el.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Morgan Labar has taught at several higher education institutions, including the \u00c9cole du Louvre and the Arts Department of the ENS, where he is an associate lecturer and has been running the seminar \u2018Autochtony, Hybridity, Anthropophagy\u2019 with Daria de Beauvais since 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>He is also involved, as an administrator, in the activities of several cultural associations and institutions (ANdEA, FRAC Sud \u2013 Cit\u00e9 de l\u2019art contemporain, Festival Actoral, Atelier des Artistes en Exil).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After serving as artistic director at the \u00c9cole nationale d&#8217;art d&#8217;Avignon from 2021 to 2024, he is now director of the \u00c9cole nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Practical information<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tuesday 16 December at 6.30pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Free admission<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grand Amphitheatre, Villa Arson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Address: Villa Arson, 20 Av. 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