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9/5/2007

Illusory Horizon

Museum of Modern and contemporary Art - MAMC, Strasbourg

Ed Ruscha and Jean-Marc Bustamante

The horizon is an illusion, an unattainable limit on the edge of sight, ever receding and ever elusive. It is a purely virtual line, which makes us aware of the hiatus between our searching gaze and our physical bodies, for the horizons we dream of inevitably drive home to us the fact that we are fixed in space and time.

This exhibition brings together works by Ed Ruscha (born in Nebraska, 1937; lives in Los Angeles) and Jean-Marc Bustamante (born in Toulouse, 1952; lives in Paris) around the central theme of the horizon. Paintings, photographs, drawings, sculptures and books, dating from between the 1960s and the present day, are juxtaposed so as to highlight both the affinities and the singularity of both artists. The collection of works on display offers a polyphonic meditation on the notion of landscape in contemporary art, and how it merges into an exploration of horizontal lines in the oeuvre of both Bustamante and Ruscha (the latter of whom declared in 1988: “I’m a victim of the horizontal line and the landscape, which is almost one and the same to me”).

The title “L’Horizon chimérique” is borrowed from a collection of poems by Jean de La Ville de Mirmont (1886-1914), which was published posthumously in 1920. Gabriel Fauré set four of these poems to music and published them in 1922 as a song cycle bearing the same title. This exhibition, which was created by Jean-Pierre Criqui, will be hosted by the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art from May 10th to September 9th 2007, and will subsequently move to Whitechapel, London, in 2008.

Image: Jean-Marc Bustamante

Opening may, 10 2007

Musee d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMC)
1, place Hans Jean Arp - Strasbourg

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