At the Galerie Eva Vautier, the exhibition Elémentaire ou la règle du jeu brings together Tom Barbagli, Charlie Chine, Jacqueline Gainon, Agnès Vitani and…
At the Galerie Eva Vautier, the exhibition Elémentaire ou la règle du jeu brings together Tom Barbagli, Charlie Chine, Jacqueline Gainon, Agnès Vitani and Anne-Laure Wuillai. Practices ranging from immersive installation to figurative painting, from performance to the creation of conceptual objects. Difference of format, difference of medium, difference of generation, difference of career. Élémentaire is a challenge … Agnès Vitani The “small business” of Agnès Grange Vitani collects, then processes, through the systematic dismantling of dead felt-tip pens. At Eva Vautier’s she presents a set of pieces emerging from her “workshops” and offers an installation evoking the landscape: -a cold, even icy part made of scraps of paper, an attempt to approach the grandeur of summits, -a temperate zone, a kind of wasteland where coloured felt-tips unfold through different processes of overlaying, -finally, cooled magmas and other pieces presented vertically speak to us of extreme temperatures. The walker’s gear, shoes and walking sticks, colour case and shelter attest to the proposal of circulation and play with a traditional image of the landscape painter. The pieces, from an era of overproduction and recycling, remain at the scale of the workspace. http://www.documentsdartistes.org/artistes/vitani/repro.html Charlie Chine “(…) A number of documents that belonged to Charlie Chine were found inside a wooden secretary bought on 27 May 2010 at a flea market situated between the rue Lassus, rue Delouvain and rue de la Villette, in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. This old piece of furniture, whose varnish still showed in places, was meant for my Parisian study, which lacked a surface for writing. Of Empire type, with its flap lined in worn green felt, it had a number of small drawers, all closed by delightful tarnished bronze locks. Playing with the little key kept until then, I managed to open two of them. The others stayed shut until my curiosity grew stronger than their seized locks. It was therefore much later that I discovered what they might contain. So many diagrams, plans, sketches, ideas, correspondence reduced to a few essential sheets, jumbled together in two black leather notebooks. After long moments pensively thinking about what I had just discovered, I decided to pursue the work begun by this lost forebear, surely born around 1880, of whom all trace had until then been entirely lost. (…)” A graduate of the Beaux-Arts of Aix-en-Provence and of the Villa Arson, Charlie Chine is interested in the question of autobiographical narrative and in the different modes of writing fiction. Through studies, activities, narratives or objects, she dissects the habitus of modern man, questioning in particular collective and individual memory, the notion of the commonplace, the notion of work, or the activity of wanting to make a work. http://www.charliechine.com/ Jacqueline Gainon lives and works in Nice Born in 1951, she spent a year at the Beaux-Arts in…
