Joël Hubaut: Re-mix épidémik monograph published by Les Presses du Réel

Les Presses du Réel and Frac Basse-Normandie have co-published 'Joël Hubaut, Re-mix épidémik', a 300-page monograph on the French trans-artist. The volume, with profuse illustrations and a meticulous layout, unifies Hubaut's chaotic and dispersive oeuvre without enclosing it, according to the editors. It assembles critical texts from various periods, alongside the artist's own afterthoughts, notes, citations, theoretical-poetic texts, and biographical narratives, deliberately disrupting chronological order. The book positions Hubaut as a visionary anti-formalist creator in the lineage of Kippenberger and Mike Kelley, as described by Vincent Labaume. Hubaut, dubbed 'prophet of postmodern chaos' by Restany and 'Monsieur Parody' by Labelle-Rojoux, has for over thirty years embodied an indefatigable trans-artist who plays with genres, codes, and styles. The monograph is described as a 'Hubaut-book manifesto' that reveals a major anti-formalist creator beneath the anarcho-aesthetic antics of a jester with a thousand masks.