Journalist, art critic. Professor of general education at the Institute of Applied Arts in Montpellier. Editorial Adviser to the Institute of advanced studies in the fine arts (Iheap). Alain Farfall has published numerous articles in prestigious journals and organized exhibitions to institutions in France but also in the United States, the Canada and Germany. He is interested in the specific uses of what is called the “world of art”, and proposes an approach to art as a social rite, of the creative act to his mediation. His research will revolve around the artwork, its framework, its effects, its uses, its comments, its modes, rather than the object of creation itself. His work and his thoughts led him to wonder if, today, there is still need art to continue to have an artistic activity. ‘Dramatization, directed by the modernist legend of the death of art. After centuries of representation of the world, the art of the twentieth century questions, criticism, analysis the same real. It is time to move in the twenty-first century and to act in the real world. At the risk of giving up the art where it is. “Alain Farfall, illusions, or the invention of art, editions uncertain meaning, Rennes, 2008, page 31.