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23/1/2015

Isabelle Cornaro

South London Gallery SLG, London

The South London Gallery and Spike Island, Bristol, present a two-part solo exhibition by French artist Isabelle Cornaro. The SLG hosts an existing large-scale installation while the presentation at Spike Island focuses on new and recent work.

At the South London Gallery, Cornaro presents the latest in the series of installations entitled Paysage avec poussin et témoins oculaires (version VI) started in 2008. Each of these installations is loosely based on a classical landscape painting by the 17th-century artist Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) created as three-dimensional interpretations using sets of plinths in varying dimensions to display objects in meticulous arrangements. The objects are selected by Cornaro for their specific form or decoration. Grouping them by size, lines of perspective and for their light and shadow effects, she puts into question their aesthetic and cultural value. The clearly structured composition reinforces the illusion of perspective, allowing visitors to experience the work from different viewpoints whilst also being able to walk between the plinths, encountering fragments of Cornaro’s constructed ‘landscape’.

To accompany this work in the SLG’s main space, Cornaro’s short films Figures (2011) and Premier rêve d'Oskar Fischinger (2008) will be shown in the first floor galleries.

Isabelle Cornaro works with painting, sculpture, film and installation, to explore the influence of history and culture on our perception of reality. As a trained art historian specialising in 16th-century European Mannerism, her visual language draws on a wide array of references from the Baroque to modernist abstraction. In her work Cornaro uses found objects imbued with symbolic potential or emotional value, which she presents in different types of display and media to reveal the subtle shifts of meaning provoked by processes of reproduction and translation.

Borrowed from domestic, decor­ative or functional contexts, these ­artefacts ­are often linked to Western culture ­as a means of power, their combination ­and a­rra­ngement in the a­rtist’s work inviting spect­ators to question the rela­tionships between systems of representa­tion ­and our understanding, a­nd hence domin­ation, of the world.

Isabelle Cornaro (b.1974 Aurillac, France) lives and works in Paris. She has exhibited extensively across France as well as internationally including solo exhibitions at M – Museum (cur. Valerie Verhack), Leuven, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, Balice Hertling, Paris, Kunsthalle Bern (cur. Fabrice Stroun), Bern, Le Magasin (cur. Yves Aupetitallot), Grenoble, Frac Aquitaine (cur. Claire Jacquet), Bordeaux, Collège des Bernardins (cur. Jean de Loisy and Alain Berland), Paris, and 1m3 (cur. Jeanne Graff), Lausanne. Group exhibitions include at Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Public Fiction, Los Angeles,Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Mercer Union, Toronto, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, and Sculpture Center, New-York. Her work can be found in a number of collections including those of Centre Pompidou, Paris, Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Île-de-France, Paris, and Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Aquitaine, Bordeaux.

Image:Film still from Figures, 2011. Courtesy the artist, and galleries Balice Hertling, Francesca Pia and Hannah Hoffmann

Opening: Sat Jan 24 2pm

South London Gallery
65-67 Peckham Road - London SE5 8UH
Tuesday – Sunday 11am-6pm, except Wednesdays and the last Friday of the month until 9pm. Closed Mondays.
Admission free

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