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15/3/2000

Thierry De Cordier

Accademia di Francia - Villa Medici, Roma

At the French Academy in Rome, the tri-annual program promoted by the Academy's director Bruno Racine and dedicated to contemporary art, continues its course.
After exhibitions by Carla Accardi, Jannis Kounellis, Günther Förg, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Karel Appel, Joseph Kosuth, Vettor Pisani and Ettore Spalletti, on the 16th of March 2000, Thierry De Cordier's exhibition was inaugurated.
The Atelier del Bosco has hosted one man shows which have as a common theme the impact the city of Rome has had on contemporary artist. The exhibitions held at the Atelier are curated by Zerynthia. All the artists invited to Villa Medici are of international renown, they open challenging discourses of historical importance. "Thierry De Cordier's work is the partial restoration of an existential condition which finds in art a true and non exclusive means of expression. The artistic mantle becomes the manifestation of an individuals existence in the world, one who is at the same time isolated while also being an active participant. Isolated within the sovereign boundaries of the individual, but participative in so far as being sensitive to the theatre of existence and life.
De Cordier considers himself neither modern nor "progressive", declaring on more than one occasion his desire to "return man to the point at which he lost himself". (Pier Luigi Tazzi) De Cordier has always preferred to live in isolated places, encompassed by the boundaries of his own garden. Initially his preference lay in the stoic region of Flanders, his home territory, but more recently he has preferred to move to the central part of France, removed from the urban and the industrial. Living becomes part of his work, a microcosm of his work which marks a "margin", a "refuge" or a "study", or to quote the artist's definition, an ambient work on his modus vivendi. In the Spring of 1996 his cycle of works entitled Moi… were shown in Rome by Zerynthia at their space in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele. These works are dated between 1987 and 1995 and present a formal assonance: the colour black and the spherical form. Amongst these can be found the work which lent its name as title to this Roman exhibition Je suis la monde, 1996.
The pieces on view at the Atelier del Bosco, are fruit of many years work and the artist has chosen to bring them to Rome, centre of Christianity, with their strong iconagraphical vision of the crucifixion. These works (sculptures in tones of grey, blue and black, a wall piece and another back to front piece which rests on one foot) take their inspiration from a sculpture made ten years ago in an outdoor location in France. In these pieces the reflection of the crucifix icon is very loosely interpreted, bearing in mind that the artist rids his work of any sense of pain: the entirety of human suffering virtually vanishes; the cross tends to confuse itself with the landscape taking on a virtually technological nature.

Thierry De Cordier was born at Oudeenarde in 1954. He lives in Auvergne, France.
This exhibition was made with a contribution from UBS (Italy) S.p.A.
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