Prehistory

From the negative hands on the walls of the Chauvet caves (minus 30,000 years ago) to the most recent experiments of a number of contemporary artists, an entire history of art can be written under the prism of breathing. Between these two milestones, this study attempts to highlight the innovative force of breath and the importance accorded to breathing as a creative gesture and artwork on its own.

The third volume of the artist's book series dedicated to prehistoric cave painting mostly features photographs taken in everyday life and on trips, as well as found illustrations from scientific publications in various disciplines.

The subject of this and the following books in the Spekulationen series is Peter Piller's approach to Stone Age art and its presence in his daily life. This volume presents four hundred and nine photographs found in publications on prehistoric art.

The second volume of the artist's book series dedicated to Peter Piller's field of research of prehistoric cave painting features Piller's own drawings.

An investigation into the origins of artistic creation, more than 40,000 years ago (a film by Pascal Goblot, with Daniel Buren and a group of specialists in prehistoric art, philosophers, anthropologists and archaeologists, narrated by Virginie Ledoyen).

From the prehistoric biface to the telephone interface, whose lightning diffusion concretizes a new anthropological threshold for humanity: a theoretical articulation of current global issues from prehistory, thought as the privileged site where to rest the questions of the technique, the language and the image, between archaeology of the media, anthropology, geology, biology and science-fiction.

A collection of three films on rock art, in America, Brazil, and China, proposed by Jean-Luc Bouvret.

Monograph dedicated to the film series incorporating central Neanderthal figures produced by British artist Nathaniel Mellors since 2012.

This catalogue documents a research and exhibition project stemming from a fieldwork conducted by the artist on a palaeontological site in South Australia.

A conversation between painter Pierre Soulages and prehistorian Michel Lorblanchet about parietal art and the origins of art.

This film documents the struggle for the preservation of the prehistoric rock art sites in the Côa valley in Portugal in the early 1990s.

A confrontation between contemporary art, Aboriginal imaginary and prehistoric legacy (with works conceived especially for the project by fifty international artists).

The first artistic perspective on prehistoric art through the rigorous study of its formal conventions and stylistic developments.

Can the modern uses of prehistory shed new light on the modern experience of time and, thus, the art of this period?

A multidisciplinary examination of the Gwion Gwion cave paintings' “living pigments” which are generating new articulations between “art” and “life.”