G茅rard Traquandi & la Donation Albers-Honegger. Contrepoint
The eac. offers an expanded vision of Art Concret* through different hangings of the Donation AlbersHonegger, accenting historical, social, or formal themes. Since the summer of 2017, l'eac has proposed rereadings of the collection as seen by an individual artist, placing a selection of their work face to face with works from the Donation. After Carlos Cruz-Diez in 2017, and Pablo Picasso in 2018, G茅rard Traquandi assumes the role of curator in 2019 with his exhibition, Contrepoint.
This French artist conceived his project like a musical score. Distancing himself from the aesthetic and social radicalism of the early twentieth century avant-garde, he plays with various dogmas and historical classifications to take advantage of the paradoxes in the collection.
芦The Manifesto of Art Concret was written at a time when a dogmatic approach was necessary to be seen as seriously incarnating modernism. I look at that without nostalgia. Excluding any imitation of nature was part of those artists鈥� position. It is time to take a relative view of this posture. Paradoxically, the collection of Gottfried Honegger and Sybil Albers is an example of this [...]. I know the collection well so there were not many surprises for me. It offers a much larger panorama than its name suggests. Art Concret appears to be more of a question than a formal answer within the context of the collection which might be more aptly titled At the frontiers of Art Concret. I don鈥檛 know if these terms would have pleased Gottfried Honegger and Sybil Albers, but the romantic and sentimental aspects of their collection hits me between the eyes. The intellectual and the emotional are convoked simultaneously. I have attempted to reflect this complexity.禄
芦Contrepoint禄 seems to be the most appropriate way to define G茅rard Traquandi鈥檚 project. The works presented do not speak with the same voice, but they create a harmonious whole whose richness comes from their combination. His work, while appearing abstract or monochrome, is rooted in the sensory, real world.
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The eac. offers an expanded vision of Art Concret* through different hangings of the Donation AlbersHonegger, accenting historical, social, or formal themes. Since the summer of 2017, l'eac has proposed rereadings of the collection as seen by an individual artist, placing a selection of their work face to face with works from the Donation. After Carlos Cruz-Diez in 2017, and Pablo Picasso in 2018, G茅rard Traquandi assumes the role of curator in 2019 with his exhibition, Contrepoint.
This French artist conceived his project like a musical score. Distancing himself from the aesthetic and social radicalism of the early twentieth century avant-garde, he plays with various dogmas and historical classifications to take advantage of the paradoxes in the collection.
芦The Manifesto of Art Concret was written at a time when a dogmatic approach was necessary to be seen as seriously incarnating modernism. I look at that without nostalgia. Excluding any imitation of nature was part of those artists鈥� position. It is time to take a relative view of this posture. Paradoxically, the collection of Gottfried Honegger and Sybil Albers is an example of this [...]. I know the collection well so there were not many surprises for me. It offers a much larger panorama than its name suggests. Art Concret appears to be more of a question than a formal answer within the context of the collection which might be more aptly titled At the frontiers of Art Concret. I don鈥檛 know if these terms would have pleased Gottfried Honegger and Sybil Albers, but the romantic and sentimental aspects of their collection hits me between the eyes. The intellectual and the emotional are convoked simultaneously. I have attempted to reflect this complexity.禄
芦Contrepoint禄 seems to be the most appropriate way to define G茅rard Traquandi鈥檚 project. The works presented do not speak with the same voice, but they create a harmonious whole whose richness comes from their combination. His work, while appearing abstract or monochrome, is rooted in the sensory, real world.
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