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For our
new space's inauguration, we decided to experiment with a
new form of collaboration with an artist. Thus did we propose
to Hugues Reip to present an exhibition not only of, but also
around his work.
This idea
was born following discussions with the artist who, while
explaining his own work, kept referring to that of other artists.
We were also interested by a musical project he has under
way with Jacques Julien under the title SPLITt. So we encouraged
him to bring together, in this exhibition, artists and works
which, somehow, form part of his personal or mental world.
Hugues
Reip has invited six plasticians, one musician and
a film director to participate in a project entitled Mégahertz.
This title evokes a sense of energy, dynamism and movement
to which each artist gives expression in his own way. In a
subtle rather than evident manner a number of links, connected
ideas, rebounds and aesthetic kinships thus develop between
the works presented.
Melanie
Counsell analyses our perception of a given context
as provided by films or by in situ interventions. Jacques
Julien changes sports fields and accessories into
sculptures where poetry and humor interact. Hugues
Reip brings out, as in sunk carvings, the characteristics
of given situations; or invents an aesthetic world which appears,
at one and the same time, both as the fusion of several well-known
styles and as an autonomous and dynamic language. In his paintings
Dominique Figarella introduces
various materials unrelated to the pictorial world. Alain
Séchas demonstrates that art continues to provide
one of the best consolations from the miseries of this world.
Stephen Tunney (aka Dogbowl
in his musical activities) invents a sound and visual universe
so delirious that life's aberrations turn into a hallucinating
show. Fabrice Gygi builds a
metal construction as evocative of a cage at the zoo or a
protected playground as of a perforated structure harboring
or sheltering the works of other artists. Norman
McLaren, no longer with us but still frantically present,
has composed, with a few musical passages and several notes,
a cinema bringing unadulterated pleasure and intact freshness.
His films, integrated with the exhibition, will be shown at
one evening session. Finally, an intervention on the ground
by architects Dominique Ferrero, Bernard
Delacoste and Christophe Empeyta provide an enlightening
echo to the very concept of Mégahertz.
The musical
part of Mégahertz will be revealed on the day preceding the
exhibition's inauguration, on the occasion of a concert by
SPLITt and Dogbowl
at the 2e Bureau, also in Geneva: it will be a meeting of
two artists imbued with music with a musician fascinated by
the art of drawing.
Jean-Paul
Felley & Olivier Kaeser
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