Jean-Pierre Criqui's Collected Essays on Art Since 1960

Jean-Pierre Criqui, editor-in-chief of Cahiers du Musée d’Art Moderne, has published a collection of nine essays written between 1987 and 1997, plus one new text, under the title "Un trou dans la vie. Essais sur l'art depuis 1960" (Desclée de Brouwer). The volume focuses on artists such as Manzoni, Morris, Smithson, Tony Smith, Orozco, and Naumann. Criqui avoids formal analysis and visual approaches, instead emphasizing the procedures of artworks, their original contexts, modes of exhibition, and the questions posed by the work itself. His writing is characterized by a piquant style, a fondness for epigraphs, and a method of circling around works, building a theoretical vision through associations and references. The book includes a reference to Jean Eustache's film, described as "highly unreasonable to approach head-on."