Histoires d'abstraction, le cauchemar de Greenberg

Since the beginning of the year 2020, more than a dozen museum exhibitions around the world have made abstraction their subject. As diverse as they are, the common denominator of these exhibitions is to manifest the actuality of abstraction while testifying to the irreducibility of the contemporary, but also historical, forms of abstract art that they present to the great teleological narrative constructed by the American art historian Clement Greenberg, who has dominated the thinking of abstraction for decades.