LOAN
06 OCT - 16 DEC 2012
MUSÉE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN, ROCHECHOUART (87)
Qui a peur du cylindre, de la sphère et du cône ? De la géométrie à l’échelle du paysage
On loan from the Frac Lorraine Collection: León Ferrari, Dominika Skutnik
Dominika Skutnik, One Ton in the Air 2003. Photo : Rémi Villaggi © D. Skutnik
Paul Cézanne caused a revolution in painting, opening the door to cubism and abstraction when in 1904 he proposed that artists should “treat nature in terms of the cylinder, sphere and cone, all set in perspective.” A century later, natural landscapes are no longer seen as subjects to represent but as a raw material to work with. Rochechouart’s latest exhibition examines contemporary visions of landscape influenced by geometry. Its title amalgamates “Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue ?” (the provocative name American artist Barnett Newman gave to his famous series of paintings) with Cézanne’s declaration quoted above.
Artists: Anna et Bernhard Blume, Michel de Broin, Fabrice Cotinat, Pierre Dorion, León Ferrari, Aurélien Froment, Anya Gallaccio, Sarah Anne Johnson, Wolfgang Laib, Bertrand Lamarche, Sigalit Landau, Richard Long, Anthony McCall, Cinthia Marcelle, Damien Mazières, Jonathan Monk, Claire Morgan, Bruce Nauman, Robert Morris, Pavel Pepperstein, Mark Ruwedel, Thomas Schütte, Dominika Skutnik, James Turrell, Gilberto Zorio.
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