Marie-Dominique Guibal
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MX ESPAI1010 - NON-PLACE
MX ESPAI 1010
IX Exposició Internacional d'Art Contemporani de Petit Format
IX Small Format International Contemporary Art Exhibition
IX Small Format International Contemporary Art Exhibition
27 novembre - 23 décembre 2008
NO-LLOC
NO-LUGAR
NON-PLACE
NO-LUGAR
NON-PLACE
"NON-PLACE" is the theme the works must address for this next exhibition.
Our idea is to guide this intrnational event more and more in the direction of contemporary art. Our objective is to be not only an exhibition of contemporary art,
but, an actual art movement. the need to "contextualize" the works is the reason why we feelit is necessary to establish a mold. To work arround an idea forces us to think
in a particular sense, a direction, demanding a more intensive reflection into why
we do what we do.
Non-place is the place of the contemporary nomad.
Non-place is the location at which the sedentary and erratic life of the planetary consumer unfolds.
According to Marc Augé :
Let us define as objective place the space in which objective marks of identity are inscribed, marks of the existing links and history (war memorial, church, public square, school,...) and as symbolic place the location of the ways of relating to others that prevail there (residence, exchange, language); objective non-place shall indicate the spaces for circulating, communicating and consuming; subjective non-place shall indicate the prevaling ways of relating to the exterior (passage, sign, code). The most explicit opposition shall arise, therefore, between the agora as a public space, as that space which is public, (the materialized location of public debate), and the highway
of the supermarket as the materialized non-place of singularized
and consumering wandering.
« PLACE / NON-PLACE »
Since several years, I make photos of people who walk in different towns of Europe.
I look how the figures of people (men, women, children) are inscribed in the architectures, the textures, the lights, the grounds and different areas of the towns.
In this work, the symbolized-walking of a man and of a woman take place in the middle of a circuit, colored like a child game. On two panels, little photos. Like moebius band,
the first panel shows a crowd in a supermarket / little groups of people walking
and talking in a square ; the second shows an armchair abandoned in a street / a red
and white roadsign used to delimit a place.
october 2008
MX ESPAI 1010
Llibreteria 7 principal - 08002 BARCELONA . Tel: (34) 933 106577 - 669 517227
www.mxespai.com – mxespai@mxespai.com
obert de dimarts a divendres de 17 a 20.30h · dissabtes visites concertades
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MX ESPAI 1010 - THE ALEPH
MX ESPAI 1010
BARCELONA
VIII SMALL FORMAT
INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION
INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION
DÉCEMBRE 2007 - JANVIER 2008
THE ALEPH
"For this exhibition the works must go arround the theme "THE ALEPH".
Our idea is to guide this international event more and more in the direction
of contemporary art. Our objective is to be not only a modern exhibition
of contemporary art, but, an actual art movement.
For that reason we will give some pattern, in order to "contextualice",
to give coherence and sense at the exhibition.
To work arround an idea, force us to think in one sens, in one direction,
doing a more extensive reflection about why we do what we do." MX ESPAI 1010
of contemporary art. Our objective is to be not only a modern exhibition
of contemporary art, but, an actual art movement.
For that reason we will give some pattern, in order to "contextualice",
to give coherence and sense at the exhibition.
To work arround an idea, force us to think in one sens, in one direction,
doing a more extensive reflection about why we do what we do." MX ESPAI 1010
Aleph is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. That with which breath begins. In the Cabala this letter signifies Soph, the boundless. It has also been said that it is in the shape of a man pointing to the sky and to the ground, to indicate that the world below
is a mirror and a map of the world above; according to the Mengenlehre, it symbolizes transfinite numbers, among which the whole is no greater than any of the parts.
The Aleph symbolically marks the beginning of life, but it is, above all else, the place where everything flows together and becomes simultaneously visible.
"... I have seen millions of deeds, delectable or atrocious; not one of them surprised me as much as the fact that they could all occupy the same point in space..." Jorge Luis Borges tells us in his description of the Aleph.
And he concludes : "Does the Aleph exist within the intimacy of a stone ? Did I,
when I saw all things, see it, and have forgotten ? Our mind is porous and forgetful;
even I may be capable, under the tragic erosion of years, to distort and misplace the features of Beatriz."
The aleph
0,10 x 0,10
novembre 2007
is a mirror and a map of the world above; according to the Mengenlehre, it symbolizes transfinite numbers, among which the whole is no greater than any of the parts.
The Aleph symbolically marks the beginning of life, but it is, above all else, the place where everything flows together and becomes simultaneously visible.
"... I have seen millions of deeds, delectable or atrocious; not one of them surprised me as much as the fact that they could all occupy the same point in space..." Jorge Luis Borges tells us in his description of the Aleph.
And he concludes : "Does the Aleph exist within the intimacy of a stone ? Did I,
when I saw all things, see it, and have forgotten ? Our mind is porous and forgetful;
even I may be capable, under the tragic erosion of years, to distort and misplace the features of Beatriz."
The aleph
0,10 x 0,10
novembre 2007
I work regularly about Moebius band.
This topologic figure shows an infinite circulation on an only one side, an only one edge; that's completely different of a linear circulation, like in a circle.
On this infinite side, every point is at all times the beginning and the end.
In my work about "The Aleph", I drawned a walking crowd
on the edge of a Moebius band.
This walking is living and boundless.
The Moebius band is set on a piece of blue openwork tarlatan.
Some blue threads come out the crystal clear square, like a breath.
12 novembre 2007
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