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artć + societate / arts + society #38, 2011 20 lei / 11 €, 14 USD - idea

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Imperiul semnelor<br />

Hanna Alkema<br />

Société Réaliste: Empire, State, Building, Jeu de Paume, 1 martie – 8 mai <strong><strong>20</strong><strong>11</strong></strong><br />

Empire, State, Building, la Jeu de Paume, este prima expoziflie, într-o instituflie parizianæ<br />

de o asemenea staturæ, a tinerei cooperative artistice Société Réaliste, fondatæ<br />

la Paris, în <strong>20</strong>04, de Ferenc Gróf øi Jean-Baptiste Naudy. De la începutul<br />

colaborærii lor, duoul franco-maghiar dezvoltæ proiecte tratînd producflia de forme.<br />

Ei chestioneazæ puterea semnelor vizuale produse în sînul lumii artei, dar øi al sferei<br />

politice, economice ori sociale. Cercetærile lor poartæ asupra discursurilor subiacente<br />

acestor imagini øi a construirii lor simbolice øi formale. Dar nu este vorba aici<br />

de semiologie, nici de istoriografie a istoriei formelor. Demersul lor se desfæøoaræ<br />

într-o manieræ speculativæ, prin intermediul unor structuri a ceea ce ei inventeazæ.<br />

Cooperativa a creat astfel nu mai puflin de circa zece entitæfli fictive care maimuflæresc<br />

structuri ale puterii, ale organizærii øi de control. Printre acestea se numæræ agenflia<br />

de design øi, totodatæ, cabinet de tendinfle „Transitioners“, „Ministerul Arhitecturii“,<br />

însærcinat cu misiunea studierii politicii spafliului, agenflia „EU Green Card Lottery“,<br />

care propune un nou protocol în modul de a trata imigraflia europeanæ. Fiecare dintre<br />

aceste organizaflii gæzduieøte dezvoltæri adesea deliberat absurde ori cinice ale<br />

reflecfliei lor, care iau forma unor obiecte, instalaflii, expoziflii, texte øi conferinfle øi<br />

dau naøtere la tot atîtea aparate critice vizînd deconstruirea privirii pe care o îndreptæm<br />

asupra lumii contemporane øi a reprezentærilor sale.<br />

Jeu de Paume, condus de Marta Gili, de asemenea curator al expozifliei de faflæ, e<br />

un loc dedicat în mod special imaginii, o problematicæ ce traverseazæ corpusul eteroclit<br />

de noi producflii øi mai vechi lucræri prezentat de cooperativa artisticæ. Dimensiunea<br />

funcflionalæ øi segmentarea uzualæ a muncii lor se estompeazæ cumva aici în<br />

beneficiul unei fojgæieli de lucræri aparflinînd diverselor lor „organizaflii“, ceea ce dæ<br />

la ivealæ refleaua întreflesutæ a proiectelor lor. Spafliul expozifliei e transformat într-un<br />

adeværat cabinet de curiozitæfli adunînd la un loc felurite medii de expresie, picturæ,<br />

film, cartografii, grafice, fotografii pe casete luminoase, sculpturi, drapele, plæci emailate...<br />

Întregul se fline printr-o tonalitate bicromaticæ pregnantæ, declinatæ de la negru<br />

la alb, începînd cu pereflii vopsifli în negru. Aceastæ prismæ restrînsæ nu e færæ legæturæ<br />

cu cerneala caracterelor tipografice, unealtæ centralæ a muncii lor, însæ evocæ<br />

mai ales un cer nocturn. Expoziflia se articuleazæ de fapt în jurul unei hærfli a cerului,<br />

Cult of She-manity [Cultul fe-manitæflii] (<strong><strong>20</strong><strong>11</strong></strong>), asociatæ calendarului lui Auguste Comte.<br />

Întemeietor al pozitivismului øi apostol al unei noi religii, acesta a întemeiat spre sfîrøitul<br />

vieflii lui Biserica Umanitæflii. Cultul va fi recuperat de pozitiviøtii brazilieni ce vor<br />

proclama Republica Braziliei pe 15 noiembrie 1889 øi îøi vor împodobi drapelul cu<br />

cerul înstelat al acestei nopfli întemeietoare. Société Réaliste, reluînd acest motiv<br />

cosmogonic, suprapune calendarului lui Auguste Comte o altæ noapte însemnatæ:<br />

cea de 5 pe 6 octombrie 1789, cînd femeile din Paris îi iau pe sus de la Versailles<br />

pe rege øi pe reginæ, punîndu-i sub lacæt la Tuilleries, în chiar locul unde se ridicæ<br />

astæzi Jeu de Paume. Cerul acestei vestite seri vine sæ se suprapunæ pe sistemul-calendar<br />

al lui Auguste Comte, în care fiecare zi corespunde unei figuri din istoria omeneascæ<br />

øi, în proiectul cooperativei, unei porfliuni a cerului. O zi corespunde uneori<br />

unei stele, înfæfliøate într-o nuanflæ de gri. Ierarhizarea hærflii în nuanfle de gri øi negru<br />

EMPIRE OF SIGNS<br />

Hanna Alkema<br />

Société Réaliste: Empire, State, Building, Jeu de Paume,<br />

1 March – 8 May <strong><strong>20</strong><strong>11</strong></strong><br />

scena<br />

Empire, State, Building, at Jeu de Paume, is the first exhibition, in<br />

a Parisian institution of such a stature, of the young artistic cooperative<br />

Société Réaliste, founded at Paris, in <strong>20</strong>04, by Ferenc Gróf and<br />

Jean-Baptiste Naudy. From the beginning of their collaboration, the<br />

French-Hungarian duet develops projects dealing with the production<br />

of forms. They question the power of visual signs produced<br />

amidst the world of art, but also of the political, economical, or social<br />

sphere. Their researches are conducted upon the discourses underlying<br />

these images and their formal and symbolical construction.<br />

Yet it is not the question of semeiology here, nor of the historiography<br />

of the history of forms. Their approach evolves in a speculative<br />

manner by the agency of the structures of their invention.<br />

The cooperative thus created no fewer than about ten fictious entities<br />

which mimic structures of power, of organization, and of control.<br />

Among these we can rank the design agency and, at the same time,<br />

cabinet of tendencies Transitioners, The Ministry of Architecture,<br />

charged with the study of space politics, the EU Green Card Lottery<br />

agency, which proposes a new protocol for dealing with European<br />

immigration. Each of these organizations shelters the frequently<br />

deliberately absurd or cynical developments of their reflection, which<br />

take the form of objects, installations, exhibitions, texts and conferences,<br />

and form as many critical apparatuses pointing to the deconstruction<br />

of the observation directed towards the contemporary world<br />

and its representations.<br />

Jeu de Paume, directed by Marta Gili, equally curator of this exhibition,<br />

is a place dedicated specially to the image, a problematic crossing<br />

the inconsistent corpus of new productions and older works<br />

presented by the artistic cooperative. The functional dimension and<br />

the habitual segmentation of their work somehow fade away here<br />

in the benefit of a multitude of works belonging to their various<br />

“organizations“, which lays open the network woven between each<br />

of their projects. The exhibition space is transformed into an authentic<br />

cabinet of curiosities gathering together a varied panel of mediums,<br />

painting, film, cartographies, graphics, photographies on<br />

lightboxes, sculptures, flags, varnished plates... The ensemble<br />

bounds through a pregnant bichromatic hue, declined from black to<br />

white, starting with the walls painted in black. This restricted prism<br />

is not without connection to the ink of typographic fonts, a fundamental<br />

tool of their work, yet it evokes mostly a nocturnal sky.<br />

The exhibition articulates in fact around a map of the sky, Cult of<br />

She-manity (<strong><strong>20</strong><strong>11</strong></strong>), related to the calendar of Auguste Comte.<br />

Founder of the positivism and apostle of a new religion, he founds<br />

at the end of his life The Church of Humanity. This cult is reclaimed<br />

by the Brasilian positivists who will proclaim the Republic of Brasil on<br />

November 15, 1889, and adorn their flag with the starred sky of this<br />

founding night. Continuing this cosmogonic motif, Société Réaliste<br />

superposes over Auguste Comte’s calendar another important night:<br />

HANNA ALKEMA este curatoare øi critic de artæ. Træieøte øi lucreazæ la Paris. HANNA ALKEMA is a curator and an art writer based in Paris.<br />

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