Manifesto (SIGNED)

Antoine d'Agata
Manifesto (SIGNED)

Photographs: Antoine d'Agata

Publisher: Studio Vortex

416 pages

Pictures: 501

Year: 2017

Comments: Hardcover, 300 x 250 mm. First edition, 2017. Copy signed by Antoine d'Agata.

Art is a source of disorder because it carries in itself the seeds of action. Contrary to widely held belief, the primary goal of the artistic effort is not to better formulate our questions about the real world, but to act more effectively on it. In 1957, Debord called for the development of an orderly intervention on the complex factors of two great components in perpetual interaction: the material scenery of life; the behaviors he leads and that upset him. It is not a question of intelligence but of how to fit into the context that is ours, and strategies to consider one's own destiny. To be, to love, to think, to suffer is no longer enough. The awareness of the extreme possibilities of existence passes through the constraint of real tests. Photographing to push the physical limits of existence, to control the world on the mode of absorption and contamination.

Manifesto is the ultimate publication by Antoine d'Agata, showcasing work from all his previous.