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Marion Baruch

09.23.16 - 10.23.16
Exhibition — Le Printemps de septembre

Photos diane arques / ADAGP, Paris, 2016

Marion Baruch is also exhibiting at château de Degrès.

Born in Timisoara (Roumania) in 1929, she lives and works in Gallarate (Italy).

 

Whether called Paintings, Sculptures or Portraits, Marion Baruch’s works are always made up of pieces of fabric pinned to the wall. At first glance they look like bits of loose canvas that have been cut or torn. The way they hang (what once would have been likened to drapery), the shapes they form are due to no more than the effects of chance and the weight and suppleness of the fabric. Nothing is pre-decided or prepared here. In fact, there is no preparation behind these pieces. They are offcuts chosen from textile workshops. They are what was left after parts of clothing were cut out from them, and indeed the clothing is still negatively present here while the remaining fabric offers a drawn structure with a soft geometry half-way between the deconstruction of painting, a sketched low-relief and process-art sculpture. But the work’s memories of anti-form do not keep it from working alongside the image and playing on the sensuous qualities of the fabrics used. These offcuts with no tomorrow are thus elevated by the fact of being selected and attached to the wall and shown as visual works.