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40 Les Prairies's artists KATINKA BOCK Le Grand Bleu (elle), 2012. Courtesy galery Jocelyn Wolff, Paris. Photography : Chloé Philip. Katinka Bock's sculptures are a combination of material and formal, process based and constructed. The materials she uses determine the nature of the works. She favours natural materials such as earth, wood, iron, copper, leather and sand – sometimes unexpected materials such as a lemon. She works with their intrinsic physical properties subjecting them to the random effects of change produced, for example, by baking. The artwork is an interplay of opposing and stabilising forces, a stasis – a harmonious arrangement that acts as a moment of clarity and suspense in the comings and goings of the world. Katinka Bock is exhibiting two new productions. One of them was realised in a process-based context in association with the Lycée Bréquigny, a Rennes school housed in a predominantly horizontal Brutalist building designed by Louis Arretche. Bock installed an area of unbaked clay covered with a red carpet in the main thoroughfare of the school, a two hundred and twenty metre long corridor used every day by fifteen hundred people. The installation itself assumed in its significance the artifice of art. The resulting sculpture confounded expectations. It did not register any identifiable footprints – they were rendered indistinct by the ensuing processes, which included firing. Katinka Bock rejects the causalist approach and dismisses any urge to fetishise imprints. Hers is a material story which encompasses a human experience within a wider process. Through it she asserts a position at one with concrete reality – a reality whose infinite complexity is revealed through her art. A. B. tr. J.H. Born in 1976 in Francfort-sur-le-Main (Germany), lives and works in Paris (France). Production Les Ateliers de Rennes 2012.
ADRIANA BUSTOS Antropología de la mula, 2007. Courtesy of the artist and galery Ignacio Liprandi Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires. MIRIAM CAHN Miriam Cahn says that she never knows, when she begins a canvas, whether the figure is going to be a human or an animal. She maintains that there is a profound relationship between the species. If she paints a man with female attributes, or a woman-monkey, or plant-humans, or body-landscapes, she is not attempting to paint a real person but the memory or the feelings of one. Her vegetal, human, or animal portraits, as she calls them, are ambiguous, complex, vulnerable, and they throb with subconscious life. Her human bodies are often naked and androgynous, with very marked, stylised eyes and sexual organs. The fully frontal nature of the figures emphasises the presence of the subject. In fact, it could perhaps be said that her subject is an excess of subject, the subject being excess – excess beside and beyond itself, beyond identity, beyond class, beyond sex, beyond gender, and yet hyper-sexualised and hypersensitive. Much influenced by Rothko, she has developed a brilliant and luminous texture, which she obtains by applying a very thin layer of paint onto the canvas, leaving no brush marks. Cahn attaches great importance to the way her works are presented, likening it to an installation, improvised on the spot and quickly executed in the exhibition space. The arrangement of the works reflects the frenetic cadence of performance. The choice of works presented in the 2012 edition of the Ateliers de Rennes is an orchestrated assembly inspired by the painter's own rhythms. F. O. tr. J.H. Born in 1949 in Bâle (Switzerland), lives and works around Bâle and Bergell area (Switzerland). Les Prairies's artists Réédition Les Ateliers de Rennes 2012. Adriana Bustos's works establish subtle parallels between Latin-American history and contemporary events there; they often reveal unexpected connections. Of particular interest is the corpus of drawings, videos, and photographs devoted to horses, which she presents as evidence of economic changes in the country. The animal that was once a symbol of pride and prosperity in the Argentinean countryside became associated, during the economic and social crisis of the beginning of the 21st century, with the precarious existence of the cartoneros as they eked a living, hauling their collections of cardboard and paper around the streets of Buenos Aires. In an extension of her research, Adriana Bustos worked on the history of colonial conquests and their apparent connections with drug smuggling. She discovered that the roads out of Córdoba, where she now lives, that have been used for more than a century by human 'mules' (people who smuggle cocaine capsules in their stomach) to transport narcotics, are the same roads that, from the 16th to the 18th century, were trodden by mules exporting precious metals. The piece presented here puns on the meanings of the word 'mule' and superimposes the routes taken by drug smugglers on the map of the colonial roads. F. O. tr. J.H. Born in 1963 in Bahia Blanca (Argentina), lives and works in Córdoba (Argentina). ZORN, 5./6.1.04. Courtesy of the artist and galery Jocelyn Wolff, Paris. 41
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