Bis Repetita Placent
This exhibition brings together artists who travel the same territories: the mythic site of the Mont Sainte-Victoire for Denis Gibelin and Eric Bourret, or Nietzsche鈥檚 famous path in Eze taken daily by the artist Eleonora Strano. These landscapes, crossed and re-crossed become receptacles for writing on a human scale, where the body becomes a drawing tool which leaves an ephemeral trace in nature, as in the work of Richard Long or herman de vries.
These walks test the body and require endurance. Artists like Ridha Dhib, Berger&Berger, or Rachael Clewlow attempt manage that by marking their paths with rational information, with more or less precise records, in a quasi-obsessional, futile quest to embrace the world鈥檚 infinity.
Natural landscapes are not the only ones covered. The complexities and swarming movement of cities are explored as well. Andr茅 Cadere roams them with his round wooden batons, arranging meetings with strangers and provoking unexpected encounters. Jean-Christophe Norman connects the great cities of the world with an invisible thread by tracing extracts of James Joyce鈥檚 Ulysse in chalk on the ground. Words and literature are also at the heart of Daniel Van de Velde鈥檚 work where written and visual poetry beat the rhythm of his walks, oscillating between appearance and disappearance. Hendrik Sturm returns to retrace a path taken before. The artist proposes to create a new version of the walk he was invited to do in Mouans-Sartoux in 2011 hoping to encounter things both familiar and different.
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This exhibition brings together artists who travel the same territories: the mythic site of the Mont Sainte-Victoire for Denis Gibelin and Eric Bourret, or Nietzsche鈥檚 famous path in Eze taken daily by the artist Eleonora Strano. These landscapes, crossed and re-crossed become receptacles for writing on a human scale, where the body becomes a drawing tool which leaves an ephemeral trace in nature, as in the work of Richard Long or herman de vries.
These walks test the body and require endurance. Artists like Ridha Dhib, Berger&Berger, or Rachael Clewlow attempt manage that by marking their paths with rational information, with more or less precise records, in a quasi-obsessional, futile quest to embrace the world鈥檚 infinity.
Natural landscapes are not the only ones covered. The complexities and swarming movement of cities are explored as well. Andr茅 Cadere roams them with his round wooden batons, arranging meetings with strangers and provoking unexpected encounters. Jean-Christophe Norman connects the great cities of the world with an invisible thread by tracing extracts of James Joyce鈥檚 Ulysse in chalk on the ground. Words and literature are also at the heart of Daniel Van de Velde鈥檚 work where written and visual poetry beat the rhythm of his walks, oscillating between appearance and disappearance. Hendrik Sturm returns to retrace a path taken before. The artist proposes to create a new version of the walk he was invited to do in Mouans-Sartoux in 2011 hoping to encounter things both familiar and different.
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