Alice In Wonderland Type Cake

Jason Karaïndros FRAC Haute-Normandie

Jason Karaïndros: Figures (video)

Opening Exhibition "The Beautiful is always bizarre" CB Friday, February 11, 2011 at 18:30 in Frac Haute-Normandie

" The Beautiful is always bizarre"
CB Carte Blanche Philippe Piguet, art critic and curator

Works :

Glen Baxter, Philippe Bazin, Anne Brégeaut Philippe Hatchet, Daireaux François, Gaël Davrinche, Jean-Jacques Dumont, Joan Fontcuberta, Gregory Forstner, Fréger, Olivier Goulet, Hippolyte Hentgen, Jason Karaïndros, Farida The Suavé, Olivier Leroi, Natacha Lesueur, Iris Levasseur Isabelle Lévénez , Remy Marlot, Javier Pérez, Francoise Petrovitch, Paul Pouvreau, Jorge Queiroz, Annelise Ragno Hugh Reip, Anne-Marie Schneider, Sterbak, Ji-Yeon Sung, Jeanne Susplugas, Toguo Patrick Tosani Yves Trémorin

Bizarre , right? Just browse all acquisitions FRAC Haute Normandie that were made over the last three years to realize that most contain some degree of strangeness. Expected result of consultation? No, at least what solved the choices that had been envisaged. Mere coincidence, then? Possible effects of time are still unfathomable. Deviation personal look? Probably, but it is fully accepted as true that the experience of art should never leave us unscathed. In a world
commonplace, standardized and stereotyped as ours, not surprising that occupies such a weird place among contemporary artists. While commenting on it, it allows them to tell the world that it is another. Of the project in an elsewhere which otherwise operates as a refuge, at least seeking it prospectively. Praise of the strange and incongruous. The look is always in need of shifted images and the mental spirit of adventure novel. Whatever their nature - painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, video and installation - the works of artists who are gathered here were selected based on their intrinsic quality to surprise the viewer, either in content or narrative their creative process. In all cases, they bring into question the reality and its conventions, as they hold the power of the imagination of their creators and to the ability of the viewer to invest his own.

Thus, the designs black Hugues Reip open on a twisted and irrational world, at once poetic, fantastical and fun, which leads the eye across a mirror unpredictable. In the chill silence of their material, photos of Ji-Yeon Sung force us to face to face so quiet that he heard an ominous and mysterious. Characters Gregory Forstner and Fréger return the existential aesthetics of the mask for what it determines to order another one unfathomable. The bizarre or the possibility of an elsewhere.

Philippe Piguet


Exhibition from February 12 to April 17, 2011
Wednesday to Sunday from 13:30 to 18:30 except public holidays


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