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23/2/2012

Four exhibitions

Musee D'art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Metropole, Saint-Etienne

Jan Fabre
Les annees de l'heure bleue - Dessins et sculptures 1977-1992

Jean Fabre is a visual artist, theater-maker, choreographer and author. Born in Antwerp in 1958, he continued his studies at the end 70 to the Academy of Fine Arts and Institute of Arts and Crafts. His earliest works date from this time. Fabre designs installations, sculptures, films and performance. Over the years, he produced a considerable body of work and acquired a international reputation.

"The blue hour is that moment of tense silence between night and day, a when anything is possible. In this intense dialogue with the physical material, the designer gets lost in his work and the space created, but generates both, repeating endlessly the same elementary gesture, a distance or abstraction in which the image, the form, the foreground and the background is and drown in which the eye loses all control over space, becomes responsive to the most unexpected appearances. The highlight of the Bic-o- Mania is the castle of Tivoli (1990) who, after an operation scribble in blue Bic large-scale collective and reflected in the waters of the pond at his feet, looks like something from a fairy tale. In this series of works, Fabre manages to formulate, through the process of creation, his vision clear and insightful, specific mechanisms of two artistic disciplines. It is and remains primarily a designer. The drawing is the projection of an instant artistic gesture and allows the artist to create, a wink, a world that bears his signature-a signature transparent and recognizable. (...)

To draw, Fabre uses a Bic, industrial object cheap and easy to available in large quantities. It also has a particular admiration for the individual who is capable of taming the language system and the economy things so that his name is commonly accepted designate an object. In the world of eponyms, the person becomes Object: Weck, Bic. With this tool for both personal and collective, Fabre layer not mean deep emotions on paper. By following the path of insects, it is pulled through the strange space-time dimension that draws in the shoebox. In a second phase, this gesture gradually frees itself to be repeated hundreds, thousands of times by dozens of anonymous hands. The relentless repetition of a gesture elementary meditative requires infinite patience, and the body ready to indulge in excesses and obsessions. The design overcomes the signing of its author to metamorphose into a sculpture that is no longer the work of an individual artist in the modern tradition, but who lives his own life, complete autonomy and sovereignty, according to the laws of collective intelligence."
Frank Maes, In Search of Utopia

Meeting about the artist: Thursday, March 29 from 4 to 6 pm
http://www.angelos.be

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Kimsooja

Korean-born artist and New York-based adoption, is Kimsooja born in Taegu, Korea in 1957. She is a painter, sculptor and videographer. Kimsooja combines tradition and modernity in its Asian work by crossing border issues and cultural social. The body, contemplation, spirituality, nature are part of his job.
http://www.kimsooja.com

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Isabel Nolan

Irish artist born in Dublin in 1974. The exhibition at the Museum represent sculptures, paintings and drawings. A book "Closely irrelevant" was published involving tests on the work of Nolan with the contributions of the philosopher Graham Harman, critic, author and academic Declan Long time, Seamus Kealy and Isabel Nolan.
http://www.isabelnolan.com

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Local Line 10 Daejeon (Coree) / Saint Etienne

With the series of exhibitions Local Line began in February 2010, the Museum of Modern Art opens its doors to artists who work on Etienne territory. The aim of this valorisation approach is to stimulate the young creation, by a set of exchanges, meetings, confrontations, always enriching. artists presented in Local Line also benefit from the network partners in the museum to exhibit abroad. The Daejeon Museum of Art hosted the spring 2011 and partnership with the Musee d'Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Metropole six artists from Saint-Etienne exposed alongside six artists Daejeon (South Korea). This year we welcome our turn Daejeon four artists to be exhibited with a selection artists installed on our territory, so that the Local Line may continue to forge ties the cave here and elsewhere, about how art and its dissemination.
Chong Min Yeon, Park Kyung Hae, Kim Jee Soo, Kang Hyun Wook, Elzevir, Eric Manigaud, Sylvia Marquet, Gaelle Vicherd.

Opening Friday February 24 at 6.30 pm

Musee d'Art Moderne de Saint Etienne Metropole
La Terrasse, Saint-Etienne, France
Wed-Mon 10 am - 6 pm
Adults 5 Reduced 4

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