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Jean-Marie Blanchet - Sébastien Vonier - Meredyth Sparks

Slidesss...
09.25.09 - 10.18.09
Exhibition — Lieu-Commun, artist run space

View of the exhibition "Slidesss...", 2009, Lieu-Commun. Photo Damien Aspe, ©Le Printemps de septembre, à Toulouse 

View of the exhibition "Slidesss...", 2009, Lieu-Commun. Photo Damien Aspe, ©Le Printemps de septembre, à Toulouse 

View of the exihibition "Slidesss...", 2009, Lieu-Commun. Photo Damien Aspe, ©Le Printemps de septembre, à Toulouse 

View of the exihibition "Slidesss...", 2009, Lieu-Commun. Photo Damien Aspe, ©Le Printemps de septembre, à Toulouse 

View of the exihibition "Slidesss...", 2009 © Damien Aspe
 

Curator: Lieu-Commun.

“Planes, passages, panels, pictures, and characters fill an exhibition which unfurls like a labyrinth which lets your gaze embrace it. The pieces on view play with the repetition of the daily round and set up different escape strategies.”

 

Sébastien Vonier uproots common materials from the ordinary: a ripped out carpet fills the wall and floor and spreads out like a deformed, flagging trophy. This household vocabulary is embellished by fictional implications with fantastic dimensions.

 

With Jean-Marie Blanchet, the pictorial factor looms up through eclectic assemblages. A formalist painting, made up of geometric forms presented in deteriorated conditions. Silent hoardings, broken boxes, shattered plaques, this interplay of massacre creates an aerial interstice, somewhere between destruction and seduction.

 

With Meredyth Sparks, the human figure bursts into the exhibition. Outdated rock'n'roll stars seem frozen, their posters plastered to the wall under Plexiglas: the subject is pushed aside by this slippery surface. The pop aesthetic of rock'n'roll entertainment is clad in the gleaming make-up of a crazy constructivism.

Manuel Pomar