Mille litres, Frédérique Nalbandian ,Variations ,Charlotte Pringuey-Cessac Exhibition from 17 October to 5 December 2015 Download the press kit Mille litres,…
Mille litres, Frédérique Nalbandian ,Variations ,Charlotte Pringuey-Cessac Exhibition from 17 October to 5 December 2015 Download the press kit Mille litres, Frédérique Nalbandian. Frédérique Nalbandian works at small and large scale with sculpture, evolving installation, in situ production and drawing. She handles two substances: soap and plaster, staged through direct and experimental processes, close to improvisation. Together with water, they form the foundations of her practice. “Mille litres” is an evolving sculpture, designed to transform over the course of several exhibitions across several years. It is composed of a soap cast, a 1,000-litre water tank and a metal catchment tray. The volume is worked and moulded by the free, natural erosion of the water, more specifically in its lower part through hollows dug for this purpose. Ever deeper furrows and other transformations will form during the exhibition, creating a new body. This work in progress becomes an experimental space within which matter is active. After a first presentation in 2013 at the Foire de Paris, then last June in the Parc de la Maison Blanche in Marseille, “Mille litres” now continues its spatio-temporal itinerary and its metamorphosis at the Galerie Eva Vautier. Variations, Charlotte Pringuey-Cessac. I rub, I flatten, I explode, I crush, I press in… Rustlings of primary plastic actions from which sophisticated, intriguing visions are born, setting against one another formal principles that have long served to tell abstractions apart, and whose primitive nature the artist proves to us: the lyrical and the geometric, expression and concept, what are they but the reflection of a making in a world where the organic always opposes the crystalline, the underwater fauna the straight bamboo? By reintroducing natural motifs and using poor materials, the artist reminds us that at the heart of abstractions it is the heart of the world that we hear. Klaus Speidel Chuchotement et contrepoint, 2015.
