Tacita Dean / Anne-Marie Schneider
dal 6/5/2003 al 22/6/2003
Segnalato da
6/5/2003
Tacita Dean / Anne-Marie Schneider
Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - MAM, Paris
Since the beginning of the 1990s, Tacita Dean has been travelling throughout the world on a quest for singular images and sounds that make up the material for her work. The British artist uses different media - photography, installation and drawing - but particularly favours16mm film. This exhibition presents her most recent works, including two new films: Boots (three versions) and Pie. Anne-Marie Schneider: her choice of techniques, including drawing and Super 8 film, has led the artist to two parallel and inextricably linked activities
Since the beginning of the 1990s, Tacita Dean has been travelling throughout
the world on a quest for singular images and sounds that make up the
material for her work. The British artist uses different media -
photography, installation and drawing - but particularly favours16mm film.
This exhibition presents her most recent works, including two new films:
Boots (three versions) and Pie.
Tacita Dean is drawn to the stories of extraordinary characters (Boots), to
the inscription of the past on abandoned objects or places (Section Cinema),
and to the almost immaterial transience of natural phenomena like solar
eclipses (Diamond Ring) or the green ray (The Green Ray). While she takes
off from an approach related to the documentary, she remains open to
coincidences and lets chance inflect her creative process. By sharing her
own experiences with the spectator in a perceptible way, she calls up a
memory that is as personal as it is collective.
The cyclical nature of time and processes of disappearance and appearance
are central themes of her work. Nature - the sea and the sky in Chère
petite soeur and the observation of animal and bird behaviour, for example
in Pie - acts as a metaphor for change as well as for permanence.
This impression of timelessness is reinforced by the intrusion of fiction
into the real. Whereas "Boots" animates the empty Casa Serralves in Porto
through his recollection of imaginary memories, vintage post-cards of
Washington Cathedral serve as fictitious souvenirs of a building that did
not exist at the time they were printed.
Through the use of fixed shots and filming in real time, Tacita Dean
suspends and renders time palpable. By distilling past, present and future
into a unique temporality, she combines the duration of the work with the
time of the spectator, providing them with a particularly poetic sensorial
experience.
An exhibition catalogue as an artist book will gather together numerous
texts by Tacita Dean closely linked to the films, as well as her complete
filmography and contributions by Laurence Bossé, Julia Garimorth, Rita
Kersting, Jean-Luc Nancy and Michael Newman.
price : 50 euros
Image: Tacita Dean - Section Cinema, 2002. 16 mm film, color with optical sound
In the framework of the exhibition, ARC/ Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de
Paris will organise a discussion between Tacita Dean and the philosopher
Jean-Luc Nancy
May 22 at 6.30pm.
Free entrance, information & reservation: 01 53674083
Curator: Julia Garimorth & Anne Dressen
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Anne-Marie Schneider
Fragile Unbreakable
7 May - 22 June
This is French artist Anne-Marie Schneider's first solo show, which follows
on her participation in l'Autre Sommeil, held at ARC/Musée d'Art moderne de
la Ville de Paris in 1999. Her choice of techniques, including drawing and
Super 8 film, has led the artist to two parallel and inextricably linked
activities:
- her drawings, inspired by automatism and based on things
seen, related to a 'daily writing', like a diary.
- her films which rely strongly on animated drawings.
An anthology of drawings-in pen, pastel, watercolour, acrylic and
gouache-are brought together here in a random chronology, grouped together
in different "families":
- allegories incarnated by objects, animals, human beings
captured in relationships eluding all hierarchies.
- inspirations from texts from Kafka to Coetzee that arouse
visual representations.
- more engaged drawings-threats of war, the negative effects of capitalism, the status of women, her ritual tasks, her alienation.
A new series revolves around the egg-single and multiple, fragile and
unbreakable, the paradoxical metaphor of a territory that is simultaneously
positive and negative, which responds to the artist's necessary toing and
froing between the intimate, mental and physical universe and the exterior
world that she is a part of.
In the obvious continuation of her graphic pursuits, three Super 8 films-
Sans Titre, Code Barre and Mariage -accentuate this chronic dimension by
associating documentary images with animated drawings in a montage where
controlled improvisation creates a literal and imaginary "small theatre of
the world". These films form a kind of language prior to any relationship
they actually have with video or cinema.
Drawn sheets or visual poems, Anne-Marie Schneider's works take advantage of
the burlesque, the tragic, the absurd, but also the marvellous, a step back
that is essential for confronting the "monsters" of reality.
Through a great economy of means and an asserted independence, the artist
constructs a necessary space of liberty.
The catalogue of the exhibition gathers together a selection of drawings and
of films stills, as well as texts by the artist and different authors:
Laurence Bossé, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Jean-François Chevrier, Frédéric
Pellion and Angeline Scherf.
price : 20 euros
Curator: Angéline Scherf
Press relations: Elsa Guigo & Maud Ohana
tel : 33 1 53674050 / fax : 33 1 47233598
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