Texts Noëllie Roussel, Bernard Marcadé, conversation between Tursic & Mille and Alison M. Gingeras

"Painting seemed to be the most powerful weapon available to us,” Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille explain their subversive choice of a well-traveled medium. “It offers infinite possibilities all while simultaneously being the simplest to implement in the beginning of this new century that is saturated with images and new technologies.” Freely mixing things, Tursic & Mille’s paintings give us pin-ups of both sexes, cute pets, artist heroes, and Cézanne’s favorite landscape, all shook up by colorful abstractions that often invade the other subjects. They sample elements from all reaches of our visual culture today, provoking our good taste, and challenging our sense of beauty. The book focuses on the artists’ work since 2012, including canvases and large-scale wooden cutouts that literally move painting into the exhibition space—a strategy of direct interaction and confrontation with the viewer culminating in their immersive installation for the Prix Marcel Duchamp in 2019.