ARTICLES AND PORTFOLIOS CV35
EDITORIAL - The “ça a été” of the “Has Been”
By Robert Legendre
Recently I perused, not for the first time, La Matière, l’ombre, la fiction,1 a catalogue published to accompany the exhibition of the same name presented in the Colbert Gallery of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in 1994 and 1995. Jean-Claude Lemagny, the exhibition curator, wrote most of the texts in the catalogue. I delighted in the magnificent images in the volume, which evoked the memory of this fascinating exhibition.
POINT DE VUE - Révolte, photographie et immatérialité : provocation ou manifeste ?
This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available.
Je me présente ici officiellement en tant qu’adversaire du «culte de l’objet» et en tant que défenseur de l’«immatérialité» en art. Soyez sans crainte, contrairement à George Berkeley (1685-1753), je me réclame d’un immatérialisme athée et existentialiste.
André Clément, Vues en abîmes
This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available.
Et si l’on envisageait l’histoire du regard par le biais de l’arrêt et du départ, de la surface et de la perspective, du rapprochement et de l’éloignement : ces paradoxes apparents s’entrelacent inextricablement pour composer notre manière d’appréhender le monde visible. Le regard est amené à considérer ce qui lui est offert dans un incessant jeu de va-et-vient et de remise au point.
Fields of Apparitions
Marie-Jeanne Musiol’s images invest the territory of invisibility by inscribing subtle traces of emanations on their surface – more precisely, the luminous emanations commonly known as “auras.” These auras, once sunk deep into the secret of their own invisibility, have been revealed thanks to the Kirlian apparatus, a vision-enhancing machine that unveils, through electrical impulses, the sheath of energy that surrounds substances.
Tarot
Marc Tessier is a poet, a storyteller, an alchemist, an artist. His films, comics, and photographs are the matter by which he transforms mundane existence and ordinary reality into a mythological universe of imaginative possibility and adventure.
