ESADHAR le Havre
Jean-Charles Eustache, Xavier Drong, Sylvie Ruaux, Régine Kolle
Exhibition from January 25th to February 26th, 2012-01-25
Galerie 65 / ESADHAR - Camus du Havre
65 rue Demidoff - 76600 Le Havre
Galerie Duchamp
Carlos Kusnir, Olivier Gourvil, Miguel-Angel Molina, Peter Soriano, Christophe Cuzin, Miquel Mont, Edouard Prulhière
Exhibition from January 12th to February 15th, 2012
Galerie Duchamp
7, rue Percée, 76190 Yvetot
ESADHAR Rouen
Erwan Ballan, Baptiste Roux, Olivier Soulerin, Emmanuelle Villard, Philippe Richard
Exhibition from January 27th to February 26th, 2012
Grandes Galeries / ESADHAR - Campus de Rouen
186 rue Martainville, 76000 Rouen
MAM Galerie
Jérôme Boutterin, Heidi Wood
Exhibition from January 26th to February 26th, 2012
MAM Galerie
45 rue Damiette - 76000 Rouen
On an initiative by Baptiste Roux, soon to be joined by Miguel-Angel Molina, both artists teaching at the ESADHaR, an exhibition that gathers together, over four different spaces, the works of a generation of painters who live in France.
The eighteen painters that have been chosen show, through their creations, a transcending of the limits of their medium: they mix it with others, from photography to installation by way of digital art, crossovers that do not exclude an attachment to the traditional form of the painting but that allow the emergence of new tools and encounters between only slightly associated fields such as conceptual art and the publication. At the heart of this porous painting itself, the artists present in the exhibition cross the line that separates abstraction and figuration, showing in their artworks, setting aside any mimesis, of the “negotiations with the real, the urban, the network, chaos”. A transitive painting.
The freedom that can be seen in the heterogeneity of their practises, far from the Greenbergian dogma of a pure abstract art and of any prohibition posed by previous movements, can remind us of that of Kurt Schwitters, impure Dada artist and prime advocate for the elimination of any separation between the arts, from whom came thewords, “The fury of sneezing”, a poem from 1946, for the title of the exhibition, showing, other than the desire to move away from French and American modernist references, the place that distance and humour hold in the works presented, built, as any Merz composition, from debris (of the world/ of painting).
Within the framework of the exhibition, the Edith research laboratory (the “Publishing painting” research axis) wished to invite artists to show, in the Galerie Martainville on the Rouen site, certain of their micro/self-published editions that question, notably in the encounter with other mediums (and firstly with photography and the object), painting and its aura. They invent a new relationship between painting and the publication, between the single artwork and the reproducible one, undermining the authority of the thing (as Walter Benjamin would say) and showing its contemporaneity.
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