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Ettore Sottsass Jr.

Curated by Anne Bonnin

With Dove Allouche, Katinka Bock, Isabelle Cornaro, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Franziska Furter, Giuseppe Gabellone, Alicja Kwade, Guillaume Leblon, Manfred Pernice, Évariste Richer, Stéphane Vigny

Pragmatismus & Romantismus associates two opposed notions that entail two attitudes. While Pragmatismus privileges experience, action, and the concrete conditions of production of works of art, Romantismus sees everything as twofold, under the sign of irony and contradiction (death within life, the possible within the real, what is not yet within what is). Pragmatismus & Romantismus thus defines a contradictory operation.