Black Mirrors
dal 25/5/2010 al 25/6/2010
Segnalato da
Gilles Berquet
Christophe Brunnquell
David Dubois
Charline von Heyl
Wade Guyton
Jutta Koether
Stephane Kropf
Eugene Le Roux
Pierre Leguillon
Mirka Lugosi
John Martin
Alphonse Masson
Gyan Panchal
Bruno Perramant
Michael Riedel
Clement Rodzielski
Anne Laure Sacriste
Vincent Romagny
25/5/2010
Black Mirrors
Fondation d'Entreprise Ricard, Paris
The exhibition uses as its source materials a portfolio of engravings made by the artists, a selection of their one-off pieces, but also other works by contemporary artists as well as less recent engravings. It intends to approach the issue of images, not from the angle of their reproducibility, but from a hypothesis on their origins and their evolution. Curated by Vincent Romagny.
Curated by Vincent Romagny
With Gilles Berquet, Christophe Brunnquell, David Dubois, Charline von Heyl, Wade Guyton, Jutta Koether, Stéphane Kropf, Eugène Le Roux, Pierre Leguillon, Mïrka Lugosi, John Martin, Alphonse Masson, Gyan Panchal, Bruno Perramant, Michael Riedel, Clément Rodzielski, Anne Laure Sacriste.
The exhibition "Miroirs noirs" uses as its source materials a portfolio of engravings made by the artists, a selection of their one-off pieces, but also other works by contemporary artists as well as less recent engravings. It intends to approach the issue of images, not from the angle of their reproducibility, but from a hypothesis on their origins and their evolution. The dark mirror, an optical instrument that makes it possible to draw a reflected image, but whose colors it tones down and whose lines of composition it intensifies, would then account for the way images form.
In this instance, it establishes links between contemporary artistic practices that may seem poles apart: monochromes (and with them a type of abstraction neither geometric nor gestural) and figuration (the effects of a line - mainly with drawing, but with painting and engraving to some degree as well). Works then become as many dark mirrors, multiplying effects of reflection and counter-reflection with one another.
Image: Clément Rodzielski, Sans titre, Aquatint page offset on paper BFK rives 270 g, 32 x 45 cm, 34 exemplaires numbered signed, printed in la Zone Opaque, Pantin, 2009 © galerie Carlos Cardenas
Opening on Tuesday 25th of January from 6:30pm
Fondation d'entreprise Ricard / Contemporary Art
12 rue Boissy d'Anglas - Paris
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