Calepinage, prison de Montluc à Lyon, Nicolas Daubanes — 2017 · Three-colour screenprint, · signed, numbered on the back. · Edition: 100 copies · 70 x 50 cm.…
Nicolas Daubanes “Hexagones” Guest artist Jeanne Berbinau Aubry “Urgens” From 14 October to 2 December 2017 "Here Daubanes discovers a more formal dimension of his work, expressed even more frankly in the mural work placed opposite. This ensemble of more than one hundred and fifty screenprints, reproducing a red and white tiled floor, cracked in places, is a copy of the floor covering of the Montluc prison, a Nazi detention site associated with the names of Klaus Barbie and Jean Moulin. By adopting the design of a tiling layout, Daubanes places the "second work" and the plastic work on the same plane, and argues for a resolutely working-class art. Its apparent insignificance, this surface ornamentalism that allows the work to be confused with the original decoration of the chapel, links it to Support-Surface more than to Carl Andre, all the more so as the vertical placement reinforces the effect of exhibition. The mural work nonetheless retains its full documentary dimension, no doubt more emphatically than in his earlier pieces. It is a matter here of presenting a sensitive, non-discursive archive, of capturing a perceptual impression, a memory of places, which may have been one of the last memories of the tortured prisoners." Excerpt from "Aucun batiment n’est innocent" by Florian Gaité, on the exhibition "Aucun bâtiment n’est innocent", Art press no. 456.
