ART
The Poetics of Space |
Written 30 January |
Tuesday 14 July, 11:00Marian Goodman Gallery, 75003 [map]
The exhibition “The Poetics of Space” takes its title from the book by French philosopher
Gaston Bachelard. The spatial interventions presented in this exhibition, give way to poetic works in which space is constructed, deconstructed, and reconstructed.
On the ground floor, Niele Toroni’s “Homage to Rimbaud” embraces imaginary and concrete space in an installation in situ, based on
Arthur Rimbaud’s synesthesia poem “Vowels: I Red, A Black, U Green".
In
Lawrence Weiner’s statement “CADMIUM & MUD & TITANIUM & LEAD & FERROUS OXIDE & SO ON...,” is the artist’s radical redefinition of sculpture in which language functions as sculptural material.
Pierre Huyghe's "Silence Score" is a transcription of
John Cage's, silent masterwork 4'33" , 1952, into a flute sonata, achieved through a converter program. Cage's original score which requires its performers to make no sound for the duration of four minutes and thirty three seconds consists of the environmental surrounding sounds that are audible in the performance space. The score was composed for any instrument, instructing the performer not to play the instrument for the entire duration of the piece. The space "in between" the score /transcription and the imagined music of the flute sonata is thus brought to the fore.
Similar to the absence of sound in "Silence Score",
Iñaki Bonillas's work "Fotografías delineadas", 2006 show how memory occupies space in a series made of photogenic and pencil drawings on photographic paper.
Dan Graham's model "One Straight Line Crossed by One Curved Line", 2007/2008, recently realised in Basel, provides, as in the other models that precede or follow the artist's built pavilions, a break with rectilinear form. Its reflective anamorphic surfaces, which are both transparent and mirror the surrounding space, are functional structures, hybrids between sculpture and architecture.
On the lower floor, Mario Garcia Torres’s work explores language, its circulation and its activation in the exhibition space, revisiting the history of Conceptual Art.
