SUBSTRATE
September 4 to October 27, 2022
Collective exhibition, no-made
The villa "Le Roc Fleuri", Cap d'Ail.
For its twenty-second year of exhibition on the site of the Villa Le Roc Fleuri in Cap d'Ail, the artists of no-made and its guest artists (local, national and international) were asked to respond to the theme SUBSTRAT.
Through this word SUBSTRATE, it is the feeling of essence, of the basis of contemporary art but also its mutations, its developments that are sought. SUBSTRATE then becomes the fundamental support of the moving plastic act, perhaps the solid base of artistic proposals?
We will exhibit the plastic, sound and performance proposals of twenty-seven artists. These proposals will define a stroll between what we will call: the apparent, the reigns of the living, death and rebirth, stratum and trace and finally under the house.
The apparent is situated in SUBSTRAT as a welcome for the visitor which from the outset questions the vanity, roots and heritage of plastic action.
The kingdoms of the living will use the mineral, the vegetable or the animal as SUBSTRATE of the work in its development. Death and rebirth traps materials, destroys them, reconstructs them. Its transformations make the plastic productions of artists kinetic in "nothing is lost, nothing is created: everything is transformed" Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier.
Strate et trace is a narration of SUBSTRAT in its chronology and its desire for memory in the form of written traces, installations, mineral, pictorial or sound fragments, witnesses of the effects of time. Sous la maison ends the journey of this exhibition in enclosed spaces outside the garden, where videos and installations dialogue and respond to each other on the reasons for SUBSTRAT.
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Essential Action Proposal
Essential action proposal
Edition
Hahnemühle Ultra Smooth Colour Photography 305g
Custom framing, anti-reflective glass.
31.8 x 23.5 cm
This series is composed of works that combine text and photography, inviting the viewer to reproduce actions. These include "Hug the Earth" and "Laugh, Laugh, and Laugh Again."
In these works, Mona Barbagli often draws a parallel between human action and natural action. She invites a deep connection between the inner world and the outer world.
The viewer is encouraged to appropriate the proposed emotional protocols, to cultivate them and to retransmit them, thus becoming an active participant in the work.
The series seeks to bring attention and importance to gestures, even the simplest and most everyday, to reveal their beauty and value.
