Marie Cool and Fabio Balducci
dal 25/10/2012 al 16/2/2013
Segnalato da
25/10/2012
Marie Cool and Fabio Balducci
Centre d'art contemporain la Synagogue de Delme, Delme
Come tavolo, come lago, come vivo spazio. The duo will present complementary experiments that thwart the laws of physics. In two exhibitions in Metz and Delme (drawings, installations, videos and actions) combine to form an echo chamber with an essential, existential approach, where continually repeated moments touch upon the ineffable.
A duo for two soli. Marie Cool and Fabio Balducci have accepted a joint invitation from 49
Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine and the Synagogue de Delme Contemporary Art Centre. This autumn,
they will present complementary experiments that thwart the laws of physics.
The two exhibitions in Metz and Delme (drawings, installations, videos and actions) combine
to form an echo chamber with an essential, existential approach, where continually repeated
moments touch upon the ineffable.
The pieces created by Marie Cool and Fabio Balducci have a layout and spatial presence that
give their appearance the semblance of “unstable sculptures with body”. The peculiarity of
their propositions and barely installed installations have a genuinely powerful strangeness.
These artists are ultimately aiming to give rise to thought rather than to a result. They
attempt to break up the conflict of the material and the metaphysical. Following no track
or trail, Marie Cool and Fabio Balducci are offering nothing less a renewal of the art
experience. Using humble materials, simple gestures, a subtle temporality, they are reviving
a universal language that everyone can understand.
They display a sensitive, critical rigour that enables them to engage in a questioning of
certain behaviours, postures and normative values – particularly temporality - that no longer
seems able to exist in the ordinary context of institutional spaces.
All of their internal dialogues, visions, incisions and apostrophes speak of a passionate
desire to dig into representation in order to help make it more open. All of their work
predisposes one to that impetus which makes art the most effective means of bringing the
invisible, inaudible world into existence.
In Marie Cool’s gestures, the hand becomes a life in itself, a multifaceted face, liable
to caress or shatter. It is the site of an approaching rage, an evolving revolt, a human
resistance to the dilution of a consumed, consumable world, governed by objects and
all-powerful machines.
The insurrection that the gestures contain becomes its own politics of life, a constant
injunction to stay awake, alive, to be there but always in a precarious balance, at the edge
of a secret.
49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine: La mia mano come organo
01.12.2012 - 17.02.2013.
Preview Friday 30 November 2012, 7pm
Press tour: Friday 30 November
www.fraclorraine.org
MARIE COOL FABIO BALDUCCI
Marie Cool was born in Valenciennes in 1961 and Fabio Balducci was born in Ostra (Ancona,
Italy) in 1964. They live and work between Paris and Pergola (Marche, Italy).
Upcoming exhibition
February 2013 Le consortium, Dijon
Selected solo exhibitions
2011 Live & Obscure, Academie de France, Villa Médicis, Roma
2010 Une vibration inaudible à l’oreille nue...* *mais évidente en mathématiques,
CAC Brétigny, Brétigny-sur-Orge
2009 Untitled 2006-2009, South London Gallery, London
Untitled, Galerie Cent8 Serge Le Borgne, Paris
2008 Untitled, attitudes, Geneva
Untitled, Site Gallery, Sheffield
Untitled 2004-2008, Maison Rouge Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Festival
d’automne, Paris
2007 Untitled, Mudam-Musee d’Art Moderne Grand Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Selected group exhibitions
2012 Is Resistance Useless?, Marcelle Alix, Paris
2011 Openings, Louvre/Fiac, Paris
2010 The Living Currency/La Monnaie vivante, Berlin Biennal, Germany
On Line : Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, MoMA, New York, USA
2009 Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Where water comes together with other water, gb agency, Paris
2008 L’angelo sigillato, Fondazione Peccioli, Peccioli, Italy
2007 Performa07/PS1 Moma, New York, USA
2006 Antipodes, FRAC Lorraine, Metz
2004 Densité+-O, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris
With the participation of Viviane Batisse, Christiane Jacquot and Florence Reuter.
La synagogue de Delme Centre for Contemporary Art is grateful for support from the French Ministry of Culture and
Communication, the Lorraine contemporary art authority (DRAC), the regional and departmental governments of Lorraine and
Moselle, and the municipality of Delme.
La synagogue de Delme Centre for Contemporary Art is a member of DCA–Association pour le Développement des Centres d’Art.
Press contact
Agathe Borgne +33(0)3 87014342 communication@cac-synagoguedelme.org
PREVIEW FRIDAY 26 OCTOBER 6pm
PRESS TOUR FRIDAY 30 NOVEMBER
Centre d’art contemporain la synagogue de Delme
33 rue Poincaré F-57590 Delme
Wednesday-Saturday: 2-6pm, Sunday: 11am-6pm.
The Art Centre will be closed from 17 December 2012 until 9 January 2013.
Free entrance.
FROM PARIS (by train 90 mins):
TGV Est, get off at Metz or Nancy
FROM METZ (by car, 30 mins):
D955, formerly route de Strasbourg
FROM NANCY (by car, 30 mins):
N74 towards Château-Salins
then D955 towards Metz