First solo exhibition by Florian Schönerstedt, exposition exhaustive. This project receives the support of the Cnap (Centre national des arts plastiques).
First solo exhibition by Florian Schönerstedt, exposition exhaustive. This project receives the support of the Cnap (Centre national des arts plastiques). According to the art historian Paul Ardenne, “Maker of short animated films, Florian Schönerstedt is soon moving into the field of research, notably in Artificial Intelligence. His work is changing considerably but, as far as he is concerned, without ever departing from a relationship that one might call elementary, substantial, to reality, his reality. The collection of his household waste, for instance, will give rise to a vast creation intertwining ecology, social ethics and archaeology. His interest, which one might call romantic, sensitive, in leaves that have fallen to the ground in autumn, in turn leads to a cutting-edge aesthetic research, carried out by an AI, on metamorphosis… The artist, if he is a transformer, is also transformed by contact with a world here at its most changeable, whose mutations in turn condition that of the work of art. Florian Schönerstedt – a transformer himself transformed.” Exposition exhaustive brings together two series by Florian Schönerstedt: Les cartes du champ de bataille and Les feuilles de l’arbre qui n’existe pas. For the first time, these complementary artistic investigations are presented together. The exhibition shows visitors their points of intersection, their recurrences and the directions taken, making these investigations the adventure of a single author. View of the exhibition Exposition Exhaustive, Florian Schönerstedt, April 2023, Galerie Eva Vautier, Photo © François Fernandez Paul Ardenne | One Foot in Reality, the Other in Virtuality. The plastic work of Florian Schönerstedt is born from two universes that are ordinarily separate: the real and the virtual. In his work, these two universes link up, fit together, and end up forming one. Magic? Trickery? Not in this case. The creation as envisaged by the artist from Nice walks on two legs, paired with one another, one material, the other immaterial. Matter, immatter? Florian Schönerstedt, or how not to choose. Or how to aggregate, fuse and make solidary what ordinarily occupies two separate fields. Two worlds in one continuum No prodigy here, but a “manner”: the choice, as an artist, to proceed by playing on two boards at once. Take the creation entitled Les cartes du champ de bataille as an example. Florian Schönerstedt lives in Nice, in an apartment, with his wife and son. A daily chore: managing the household waste. Throughout 2016 the artist meticulously collected every item destined for the bin; he sorted them and then, instead of throwing them away, kept this waste, classifying and archiving it day by day. An obligation Florian Schönerstedt imposes on himself? Let us call it a “protocol”, in the line of conceptual art (the artist opts not for a creation without a compass, wandering in all directions, but on the contrary subjects himself to obligations, to a working regulation).…
