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5/5/2010

Drawing time / le temps du dessin

Galeries Poirel, Nancy

All too often confined in "cabinets of drawings", works on paper nevertheless are a reflection of the first manifestations of artistic thought and action. The "masterpiece" takes shape on a blank piece of paper, in the act of tracing a line, leaving a mark, that is, in the act of drawing. In the incredible space of the Poirel galleries, drawings offer themselves in an unusual "representation". Playing with disappearance, with excessive filling-in, or with inventive usage of a ream of paper, the works challenge, in turn, space and time, sometimes taking on imposing proportions.

Gaylen Gerber’s spectacular installation, Backdrop, whose function, as its name indicates, is to serve as a background for other works, creates a new environment, erasing any context incompatible with the white wall in order to offer floating architecture and redefine our perception of "displayed drawings". Other works are, indeed, arranged according to the logic of endangerment, where each work may just as well find its display case.
Backdrop thus challenges at once both the context of the exhibition, the architecture of the building, and our experience of temporality and autonomy (or its lack) of the work of art.

This exhibition project was realized thanks to the joint initiative of FRAC Lorraine and Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nancy which, in turn, points visitors in new directions in order to answer the question of artists’ growing infatuation with drawing, despite the lure of new technologies. Other institutions participate in this project, including Galerie Nancy Thermal, which features Vera Molnar’s piece Promenade (presque) aléatoire, and the gallery Art Attitude Hervé Bize in Nancy, as well as the Douëra in Malzéville.

Artists
Gaylen Gerber with Fayçal Baghriche, Katinka Bock, Iñaki Bonillas, Angela Bulloch, Hugo Canoilas, Isabelle Cornaro, Detanico/Lain, Edith Dekyndt, Gintaras Didziapetris, Amy Granat, Anthony McCall, Nicolas Muller, Nadia Myre, Jean-Christophe Norman, Evariste Richer, Lotty Rosenfeld, Ignacio Uriarte, Adam Vackar

Curator
Marie Cozette, director of Synagogue de Delme
& Béatrice Josse, director Frac Lorraine

On loan from :
Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Galerie Balice / Hertling, Nogueras Blanchard and Feinkost, Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Frac Bourgogne, Frac Lorraine, La Colección Jumex, Galerie Schleicher+Lange, Nosbaum & Reding art contemporain, Esther Schipper, Bruno Spaas, Galerie Tulips & Roses, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff

Image: Ignacio Uriarte, The A-4 cycle, 2004. © I. Uriarte

Press contact:
Laetitia Bahuon coordination@fraclorraine.org
Valérie Audren-Guelton communication@fraclorraine.org

Opening: Thursday 06th May at 4 pm

Galeries Poirel
3, rue Victor Poirel, F-54000 Nancy
Open everyday from 10h to 18h
(except tuesday & 14/07)

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