Esse 114 - Abstractions. Spring Summer 2025

Yet what about abstraction today? Long confined to formalist and self-referential imperatives, abstraction has gradually freed itself from the modernism yolk to recapture its evocative power. This issue proposes to turn away from the dogma of Abstraction as a historical genre to consider its various plastic and semantic avenues. In this invitation to explore abstractions, we wish to re-establish a dialogue between content and form, between the political and the poetic, by engaging with works that evoke reality differently. Whether they are qualified as abstract, non-figurative, or non-objective, these works certainly tell us stories.
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Editor
Sylvette Babin

Publishers
Les éditions esse/Esse Magazine

Publication Date
2025

Size
9 x 11.5 inches
98 pages

Binding
Softcover, perfect-bound

ISBN
978-2-924345-67-2