Group exhibition with the artists BEN, Olivier Mosset, Claude Viallat, Geoffrey Hendricks, Benoît Barbagli, Tom Barbagli, Gérald Panighi, Charlotte…
Group exhibition with the artists BEN, Olivier Mosset, Claude Viallat, Geoffrey Hendricks, Benoît Barbagli, Tom Barbagli, Gérald Panighi, Charlotte Pringuey-Cessac, Marc Chevalier, Franck Saïssi and Anne-Laure Wuillai. This imaginary line represents the junction between the sky and the earth, or the sea, from the viewer’s point of view. This limit of the world, which never ceases to move along with us, always seems within reach. At once a border and a future, the horizon line has driven man’s curiosity to go beyond his own world to see what lies beyond. One of Ben Vautier’s first works is a line dated 1955; he would later sign the horizon on the Promenade des Anglais in 1962. The horizon line becomes a work of art and his property. The gesture having been repeated many times, many horizons have become his. It marks the starting point of the artist’s journey and his incursion into the deeper worlds of everyday life. Starting from the landscape around him, he moves towards the philosophy of human nature, ending by exploring the depths of the soul. The gestures and words that make up Ben’s work may seem trivial, common, even worldly, but they systematically prompt reflection. This exhibition brings together historical works by Ben, unseen works, but also those of ten artists who approach their artistic worlds with the same momentum, while seeking answers on different horizons. Thus, L’art à l’horizon will also take you into the worlds of Gérald Panighi, Benoît Barbagli, Charlotte Pringuey-Cessac, Tom Barbagli, Olivier Mosset, Marc Chevalier, Anne-Laure Wuillai, Claude Viallat, Franck Saïssi and Geoffrey Hendricks. Curator: Eva Vautier Exhibition view “ L’art à l’horizon “, 2021, La Conciergerie, La Motte-Servolex photo Anne-Laure Wuillai The line The straight line, often the simplest path yet the hardest to take and to trace, forms a demarcation, a border. It is figured by a starting point and an end point joined by a stroke. Both limit and link, like the horizon, the imaginary line between sky and earth, it is the beginning of mystery. To appropriate the horizon, as Ben Vautier did by signing it in 1962, to make it concrete with a stroke, is to create a gesture that masters the limit and gives it a direction, then a meaning. Through the gesture, or the act of signing what had not been claimed, Ben embraces several artistic currents, such as Marcel Duchamp’s “ready-made” and the international Fluxus movement, which found a headquarters in France in his shop on rue Tonduti-de-l’Escarène. Fluxus advocates non-art or anti-art and works to erase the boundary between art and life. It is a movement of energy that embraces the fluidity between artistic expressions by abolishing the barriers between the arts and what is considered a work of art. In this way, limits and borders are constantly explored, pushed back and called into question. The group takes precedence over the individuality of the artist, yet the ego does not disappear entirely; it is,…
