2013/14 - LISTE 18 | The young art fair in Basel

Bugada & Cargnel0/10/7Bugada & CargnelClaudia CargnelFrédéric Bugada7–9, rue de l’ÉquerreFR-75019 ParisT +33 1 42 71 72 73F +33 1 42 71 72 00M +33 6 07 68 65 92contact@bugadacargnel.comwww.bugadacargnel.comShown at LISTE:Étienne Chambaud, 1980, FRCyprien Gaillard, 1981, FRAdrien Missika, 1981, FRNico Vascellari, 1976, ITOther Artists of the Gallery:Wilfrid Almendra, FRMarc Bijl, NLPierre Bismuth, FRMat Collishaw, UKNick Devereux, UKPiero Golia, ITAnnika Larsson, SEJulio Le Parc, AR/FRIris van Dongen, NLAdrien MissikaJardin d’Hiver(Installation atKunsthaus Glarus),2013Bamboo, syntheticresin, rope,concrete, plants300 × 100 × 100 cmÉtienne ChambaudBlade Portraits, 2012Colour photograph,laminated, cut andframed80 × 67 cm64 / 65Adrien Missika’s work deploys itself asa permanent investigation of in-betweenspaces, between fiction and reality:while playing with the viewers’ expectationsand biases, it questions in a subtle way ourrelation to the world and its representation.Adrien Missika follows the traces ofthe Brazilian landscape architect and artistRoberto Burle Marx (1909–1994), a designerof gardens, parks and promenades whointroduced modern landscape architectureto Brazil. His sculptural flower-towerconstruction borrows its form from BurleMarx’s plant racks. For the constructionof the bamboo towers, he is using the Asianknot technique of scaffolding, expandingthe architectural space into a verticaldimension. This formal element is oftenused in compacted city planning as well asutopian concepts of vertical gardens andgreen cities. Particularly interested inthe legacy of European modernism outsideof Europe, Missika is also concernedwith the confrontation between nature andcultural construction.Etienne Chambaud explores the essenceof a work of art: its relation to its subtext,to the vertigo of its stratified referencesand lost origins, to its contexts, and the wayartworks are charged with meaning orendowed with a particular narrative. He isespecially interested in a negative definitionof the artwork, from its merge, textualor legal perimeter, and by the process andtechnology of conservation and displayof art. Since years is carrying on a researchon separation as relation and exhibitionas exclusion in an investigation on zoos andanimal expression.Each piece from the series Blade Portrait isthe framed photographic print of a flower –often with its back to the photograph,stretching its neck for a capital punishmentto come – and whose frame was cutthrough, leaving the top of the photographto fall into the lower space, in the mannerof a blade sliding in the window of aguillotine, in an attempt to create an antiportraitof all the blades that contributed tothe work.