ART
Marc Desgrandchamps |
Written 30 January |
Friday 30 April, 12:00Galerie Zürcher, 75003 [map]Marc Desgrandchamps
Fragments of a Random Modernism
This new exhibition by Marc Desgrandchamps, is not characterised by unity; but the diversity of its themes which interrogate the "modernist" period, the product of a world in crisis.
The always-identical blocks of blue, unmodulated but sometimes traversed by cloudy white stripes, without relief, pass from one painting to another in a wholly natural way. With their petrifying light, they set their stamp on the most minor scenes. The figures – architecture or landscapes comprised of fragments derived from compositions that may go back several years (for example cactus shapes against a background of snow-covered mountains) – are plunged into a timeless universe whose components, though figurative, are also indeterminate.
