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44 Les Prairies's artists JOHN DIVOLA Vandalism, 1974. Courtesy galery Laura Bartlett, London. éTIENNE-MARTIN French sculptor Étienne-Martin, who worked in the tradition of Brancusi, was also influenced by Marcel Duchamp. He worked with bronze, or fabric and rubber, and had a predilection for wood. He maintained that "the interior determines form". The "interior" could be an inner life or a family home, just as it could be the nature of a piece of wood that already contained the form. This spiritual attitude towards materials animated his work and necessarily entailed a kind of introspection that could be looked on as an initiatory journey deep into personal history. In the 1950s, delving back into early memories, especially of his childhood home in Loriol in South-East France, he began making Demeures, a series of architectural sculptures. These pieces along with his famous Manteau en tissue, belong to what might be called nostalgic art. La Marelle (hopscotch) is an assemblythat uses the ground plan of the Loriol house. The graphics are basic shapes (sun, circle, rectangle, heart), numbers and inscriptions. It is part of the Abécédaire (Alphabet Primer). "The Abécédaire met a crucially important need, which was to connect various different things together, to find a link between these figures. The Abécédaire is a chronological route from the closed and secret world of the original alcove out to the terrace, which is open to the outside world. It is also a kind of game of goose" (Etienne-Martin). This original art, which transforms biography into universal artistic experience, transcends all opposition between modern and archaic, figurative and abstraction. tr. J.H. Born in 1913 in Loriol (France), died in 1995. A major photographer on the California art scene, John Divola began his career in the 1970s with the series San Fernando Valley (1971-1973), which documented the life of the inhabitants, as well as the architecture, of a depressed Los Angeles suburb. The series Vandalism, executed between 1974 and 1975, was a founding work in his conceptual vocabulary. He took black and white photographs of the interiors of abandoned houses, after first reworking the spaces – for the most part with silver aerosol paint or by moving various objects. His first ideas for this series came while he was developing photos of silver-grey gas bottles. The link between the silver of the photographic paper and the colour of the bottles gave him the idea of extending the effects of the photo and the flash to this colour. Divola started taking paint aerosols into abandoned houses in Los Angeles and painting at random the walls, ceilings, floors and various objects he found there. The three-dimensional space of these interiors is flattened by the two-dimensional pictorial pattern that comes to the surface of the image. Vandalism established a conceptual link between painting and photography in a direct line with Californian artists like Ed Ruscha. F. O. tr. J.H. Born in 1949 in Los Angeles (United States), where he lives and works. La Marelle, 1963. Collection Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg. Photography : M. Bertola. © Adagp, Paris 2012.
CARLA FILIPE Blue drawings, 2006-2008. Courtesy of the artist, galery Nuno Centeno, Porto, and galery Graça Brandão, Lisbon. Les Prairies's artists Carla Filipe's close mixture of personal and collective history explores the way memory functions. She requisitions drawing, objects, posters, photographs, banners, and other forms into her work and these all take on meaning as part of her installations. In common with a number of artists in the exhibition Prairies, her art involves documentary work. In her case, it is closely associated with biography and sociology. In the collective exhibition, worm-eaten books are a literal demonstration of tattered knowledge, using a double symmetric pattern evocative of the Rorschach psychological test. The two works on show at the Rennes Musée des Beaux-arts are similarly emblematic of Filipe's approach. Ex –voto : dimanche, cimetière anonyme et mémorial ferroviaire consists of sixty-eight ex-votos dedicated by the artist to railway workers. This granddaughter of a level-crossing keeper brought old family stories to bear on her ideas about the railway as a concrete metaphor for the advent of capitalism and population movement. Her installation Archive sourde-muette was created for the Prague contemporary art centre Tranzit. It incorporates all kinds of different documents and is a subjective, historical archive that materialises temporal, conceptual and ideological movements – from the 1980s to the present, from communism to post-communism, childhood to adulthood, Portugal to the Czech Republic, from West to East. tr. J.H. Born in 1973 in Vila Nova da Barquinha (Portugal), lives and works in Porto (Portugal). retrouvez cette artiste au Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes 45
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