ART
Laurent Grasso |
Written 30 January |
Wednesday 17 June, 11:00Centre Pompidou, 75004 [map]
In 1964, two American radio-astronomers using the Horn Antenna at Holmdel in New Jersey encountered an inexplicable background hiss that finally proved to be the “fossil” relic of the Big Bang. Laurent Grasso has made a sculpture of this antenna, and a replica of Nikola Tesla’s antenna. With his film, sound and technical equipment, Laurent Grasso as ever evokes a meaning that lies just beyond our grasp, producing an atmosphere and a space in which all attempts to fix meaning are countered, disturbed, and paralysed.
In less than a decade, employing a variety of media and techniques, Laurent Grasso has produced a distinctive body of work that unsettles the viewer’s certainties. In Tout est possible (Anything is Possible) (2002) we overhear the inner thoughts of a man walking the streets, haunted by ghosts and extraterrestrials. In Radio Ghost (2004) we float above Hong Kong, listening to stories of real-life encounters with ghosts. For Grasso, strangeness, mystery and hidden meaning are not only to be found at military bases or in extraordinary scientific phenomena but equally in a simple film of starlings in the Roman sky, or as the camera wanders the studios of Cinecitta, amid the deserted sets of Gangs of New York.
| What: | Laurent Grasso |
| When: | Wednesday 17 June, 11:00 |
| Where: | Centre Pompidou, Place Georges Pompidou 75004 [map] |
| Transport: | Rambuteau, Hôtel de Ville, Châtelet-Les Halles |
| Cost: | 8-12EUR |
| Phone: | 01 44 78 12 33 |
| Web: | www.centrepompidou.fr |
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