Currently in Marseille. Article, in French, to come soon!
This event is of a rare kind in the French metropolis. A truly authentic expression of art, interacting with a traditional place, a flea market in the heart of the southern city's popular neighbourhood.
This group of Spanish and Italian artists, all friends and frequent collaborators, were give a "carte blanche" by the Saint-Laurent Gallery to occupy the marker for three months and interact with the place and its shops and "brocanteurs"...
This freedom gave a reflexion on our everyday interaction with objects and with reality, hence this interrogation of the "dark matter", la "matière noire", as the visible or invisible, tangible or intangible around us.
The artist used mixed media, from objects found in the market to photographs, video, sculpture and painting. A real moment of public, interactive art, the show is divided on three parts (Projeter / Percevoir / Interpreter) over two floors...
The opening on October 7th attracted hundreds of people. Most of the pieces were on sales; some are even still available.
Go and see the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/matierenoiretat2/?fref=mentions
Introduction below, with a few pictures, and article to come soon, after I've spoke more in depth with the curators, Carmen Main, and the main invited artist, Borondo.
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M A T I È R E N O I R E
BORONDO SHOW
7.10.2017 – 31.01.2018
Marché aux Puces
Marseille
Message from Borondo:
\\\ In collaboration with BRBR Films, Carmen Main, Diego López Bueno, Edoardo Tresoldi, Isaac Cordal, Robberto Atzori, SBAGLIATO
\\\ © The Blind Eye Factory, Laura Aruallan, Laurent Carte
\\\ From Oct 7 to Jan 31
Thursday to Saturday 10.00 - 18.00
Sunday 10.00 - 13.00
Thursday to Saturday 10.00 - 18.00
Sunday 10.00 - 13.00
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"It smells like dust and wood. We get into the limbo of memory. An endless number of carefully carved objects tell us that there was once a time when clocks could take their time.
There are mirrors of all sizes. Contained inside the glass is a heavy, sparkling history that is now coming across new eyes. I can’t stop wondering how many glances coexist in this
reflection.
Within this universe of furniture, certain vessels of different cultures materialise. Sound waves lie hidden in its curvatures, words from a past life that do not reveal its secret. Hundreds of statuettes, old-time icons, have gone from being avant-garde to being memories, to discover the sound of an unstoppable metronome that seems to set the beat faster and faster. Singing of the past, voices reverberate out of magnetic tapes and interfere directly in the present. At the same time, an absent-minded listener modifies these sounds with his contemporary perception in a return trip around the collective consciousness. Meters and meters of celluloid, immortalised memories are afraid of losing their eternal nature when confronted with fire.
On 8-millimeter film, a little girl looks at her dad’s camera while she is playing in the river. The little girl is laughing and dancing. She fascinates us speaking about the unique, yet it scares us when she shows us what is unrepeatable. She draws an invisible past, without which our existence would be impossible.
Dark matter of the present time.
According to cosmologists, dust, wood, mirrors, vessels, statuettes, the little girl and any other thing we can see with our eyes, or through using instruments at our disposal, are just five percent of the universe. The rest is dark energy and dark matter, a mysterious substance that reminds us just how much we do not know compared to what we know.
That our perception is limited and subjective and that life would not be as it is without this mysterious and dark reality. Just as it would not be as it is if the little girl, her father, the camera or the river had not existed. Just as life anywhere in the world would be the same if all these thwarted realities at Marché aux Puces in Marseille had not taken place. Just as all the stories lying about in the market had not occurred if the rest of the universe had not been in motion.
My dark matter.
A reality that is not there anymore and whose echoes are the only things I can still hear. A reality that is not mine and I do not mind, because I do not even know that it exists. A reality that I cannot touch and whose unknown nature scares me. The sleeping truth in the unconscious. The invisible.
My dark matter."
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More on the artists:
BORONDO (SP)
Borondo’s artworks are deeply influenced by the theme of the sacred, of the human behavior and of the fragility of the psyche, with a peculiar research on the sign and the bodily position as expressive and emotional vehicles. He has made numerous public interventions around the world; since 2012 he presents exhibition projects all over Europe, where he expresses his art through multiple media and materials, suggesting paths and reflections through paintings and multimedia installations.
A.L. CREGO (SP)
GIF artist A.L. Crego believes the medium will one day "rule the world". He uses impressive loops to represent his very own mental images, giving his works a sci-fi classical aesthetic as if they came directly from his subconscious. He has been approached by various DJs, artists, and agencies, all interested in getting their own personal work made.
BRBR FILMS (SP)
London-and-Madrid-based visual and audio collective, with a background in cinema, visual arts and social sciences. Documenting reality, BRBR aims to push the boundaries of contemporary visual culture. Their work has been screened in film festivals and museums, and it ranges from feature films to music videos.
CARMEN MAIN (SP)
She has been collaborating with musicians, filmmakers, performers and plastic artists, focusing her work on the transdisciplinary research: a hybrid of artistic practices where different agents dance together for a common immersive experience. Thanks to her interest in the distinctive features of each discipline and in the comings and goings between analog and digital, she graduates specializing in painting and video art.
DIEGO LÓPEZ BUENO (SP)
Video artist whose work examines authorship issues through image appropriation. While establishing a dialogue between the new technologies and all the digital languages originating from the net, he analyses the communication through the Internet as a never-ending source of raw material to work with through the use of glitch, 3D or any kind of new “noise”.
EDOARDO TRESOLDI (IT)
Edoardo Tresoldi plays with the transparency of mesh and with industrial materials to transcend the timespace dimension and narrate a dialogue between Art and World, a visual summary which reveals itself in the fade-out of physical limitations. Since 2013, he performs public space interventions, focusing his research on the genius loci and the study of landscape elements.
ISAAC CORDAL (SP)
Isaac Cordal focuses his research on the human figure and its relationship with the surrounding landscape. His main project, Cement Eclipses, is a critical definition of our behavior as a social mass. Small statues, no more than 25cm tall, suspended in routine scenes where they take on multiple meanings and placed in locations that quickly open doors to other worlds.
ROBBERTO ATZORI (IT)
During his childhood he spent long periods cataloging stones, branches and animals in his garden, just a few steps from an abandoned graveyard. His aesthetics is tied to the worship of the dead, a memory-related veneration transferred to an object and the unleashed evocative power. He has worked with more than 100 international artists, including Richard Long, Tracey Emin and Jeff Wall.
SBAGLIATO (IT)
SBAGLIATO is an artistic project born from the desire to generate interference in the urban fabric by creating empty spaces within the rigid and composite order of the architectures. The installations of SBAGLIATO are the result of a synergy between architecture, graphics, photography and collage, through the use of the poster, an ideal medium due to its ephemeral nature and the camouflage aptitude.
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More soon.
