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1997, serie of 20 drawings, acrylic on paper, 24 x 17,7 cm.
Exhibition view from Blinding Light, Analix Forever, 2013, Geneva.
Courtesy of the artist.
1997, serie of 20 drawings, acrylic on paper, 24 x 17,7 cm.
Exhibition view from Blinding Light, Analix Forever, 2013, Geneva.
Courtesy of the artist.
1997, serie of 20 drawings, acrylic on paper, 24 x 17,7 cm.
Exhibition view from Blinding Light, Analix Forever, 2013, Geneva.
Courtesy of the artist.
1997, serie of 20 drawings, acrylic on paper, 24 x 17,7 cm.
Exhibition view from Blinding Light, Analix Forever, 2013, Geneva.
Courtesy of the artist.
1997, serie of 20 drawings, acrylic on paper, 24 x 17,7 cm.
Exhibition view from Blinding Light, Analix Forever, 2013, Geneva.
Courtesy of the artist.
1997, serie of 20 drawings, acrylic on paper, 24 x 17,7 cm.
Exhibition view from Blinding Light, Analix Forever, 2013, Geneva.
Courtesy of the artist.
1997, serie of 20 drawings, acrylic on paper, 24 x 17,7 cm.
Exhibition view from Blinding Light, Analix Forever, 2013, Geneva.
Courtesy of the artist.
1997, serie of 20 drawings, acrylic on paper, 24 x 17,7 cm.
Exhibition view from Blinding Light, Analix Forever, 2013, Geneva.
Courtesy of the artist.
1997, serie of 20 drawings, acrylic on paper, 24 x 17,7 cm.
Exhibition view from Blinding Light, Analix Forever, 2013, Geneva.
Courtesy of the artist.
1997, serie of 20 drawings, acrylic on paper, 24 x 17,7 cm.
Exhibition view from Blinding Light, Analix Forever, 2013, Geneva.
Courtesy of the artist.
1997, serie of 20 drawings, acrylic on paper, 24 x 17,7 cm.
Exhibition view from Blinding Light, Analix Forever, 2013, Geneva.
Courtesy of the artist and Analix Forever, Geneva.
1997, serie of 20 drawings, acrylic on paper, 24 x 17,7 cm.
Exhibition view from Blinding Light, Analix Forever, 2013, Geneva.
Courtesy of the artist.
1997, serie of 20 drawings, acrylic on paper, 24 x 17,7 cm.
Exhibition view from Blinding Light, Analix Forever, 2013, Geneva.
Courtesy of the artist.
1997, serie of 20 drawings, acrylic on paper, 24 x 17,7 cm.
Exhibition view from Blinding Light, Analix Forever, 2013, Geneva.
Courtesy of the artist.
1997, serie of 20 drawings, acrylic on paper, 24 x 17,7 cm.
Exhibition view from Blinding Light, Analix Forever, 2013, Geneva.
Courtesy of the artist.
1997, serie of 20 drawings, acrylic on paper, 24 x 17,7 cm.
Exhibition view from Blinding Light, Analix Forever, 2013, Geneva.
Courtesy of the artist.
1997, serie of 20 drawings, acrylic on paper, 24 x 17,7 cm.
Exhibition view from Blinding Light, Analix Forever, 2013, Geneva.
Courtesy of the artist.
1997, serie of 20 drawings, acrylic on paper, 24 x 17,7 cm.
Exhibition view from Blinding Light, Analix Forever, 2013, Geneva.
Courtesy of the artist.
1997, serie of 20 drawings, acrylic on paper, 24 x 17,7 cm.
Exhibition view from Blinding Light, Analix Forever, 2013, Geneva.
Courtesy of the artist.
1997, serie of 20 drawings, acrylic on paper, 24 x 17,7 cm.
Exhibition view from Blinding Light, Analix Forever, 2013, Geneva.
Courtesy of the artist.
'' The paintings from the series « Fragile » express the desire to go back to the origins of artistic creation.
They aim to explore a primitive and original form of creative energy, a crude, nearly unprocessed matter.
They stir up a primordial soup where motifs are still indistinct, sometimes combined or giving birth to new life forms. ''
Studio Fatmi, January 2018
Fragile
View from the exhibition Keeping Faith - Keeping Drawing, Analix Forever, Geneva, 2019.
Courtesy of the artist.
Fragile
View from the exhibition Keeping Faith - Keeping Drawing, Analix Forever, Geneva, 2019.
Courtesy of the artist.
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| Collection of Mirabaud Contemporary Art Collection, Geneva
« Fragile » est une série de peintures à l'acrylique commencée en 1997 aux motifs graphiques récurrents. Le dessin d'un nuage blanc et opaque occupe le centre des images, s'étirant du bord gauche au bord droit du cadre, dissimulant en partie les autres motifs de la composition. Il fait écho à une phrase du manifeste de l'artiste : « Je me méfie des nuages. Je ne sais jamais s'ils me protègent du soleil, ou s'ils me cachent la lumière ». Une large bande rouge très légèrement transparente se superpose aux éléments de la composition, traversant cette dernière de part en part, dans les sens horizontal et vertical. Des motifs géométriques et figuratifs de couleur blanche sur fond noir surgissent çà et là : lignes droites, quadrillages, détails anatomiques humains ou animaux, motifs végétaux.
mounir fatmi, en parlant de ses dessins évoque la présence d’ « un corps mutilé, composé, recomposé ». Les peintures semblent former un laboratoire, une salle d'opération, en tentant de réunir entre eux les membres épars d'une créature hybride : ici une jambe, là un œil, ailleurs encore une bouche mi-humaine, mi-animale. Elles constituent un champ d'expérimentations plastiques où l'artiste mêle des motifs qui font le lien entre ses inspirations, sa sensibilité artistique et des éléments de sa biographie, émotions ou souvenirs. Leur dispositif rappelle une autre scène de bloc opératoire, appartenant également au corpus artistique de mounir fatmi : celle de la guérison du diacre Justinien par greffe d'un membre et par l'intervention de saint Come et saint Damien. Celle-ci est traitée dans les projets de vidéos et de photographies « La Jambe noire de l’ange » qui s'inspirent du tableau peint par Fra Angelico au 15e siècle. Les œuvres de mounir fatmi relient la cure miraculeuse évoquée par l'iconographie religieuse à la question de l'hybridation culturelle qui se trouve au cœur de ses réflexions et fonde l'ensemble de son travail.
Les peintures de la série « Fragile » formulent le désir de remonter aux origines de la création artistique. Elles ont pour projet d'explorer une forme primitive et originelle d'énergie créative, une matière brute et non transformée, ou à peine. Ils brassent une soupe primitive où les motifs sont encore indistincts, se confondent parfois, ou donnent naissance à de nouvelles formes de vie. Leur geste s'inspire de différentes techniques et tente de suivre et d'observer d'infimes variations énergétiques et rythmiques. « Fragile » présente un aspect qui peut sembler à l'opposé de la matérialité et de la solidité d'installations monumentales réalisées par l'artiste, qui évoquent cependant elles aussi une faiblesse - notamment « Après la chute », réalisée à l'aide de barrières de saut d'obstacle hippique - celle de nos constructions mentales et de notre rapport à la réalité.
Studio Fatmi, Janvier 2018.
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« Fragile » is a series of acrylic paintings initiated in 1997 and featuring recurrent graphic motifs. The drawing of a white and opaque cloud is at the center of every image, stretching from edge to edge and partly hiding the other motifs in the composition. It echoes a sentence from the artist’s manifesto: « I’m wary of clouds. I never know whether they’re protecting me from the sun or hiding the light from me. » A wide and slightly transparent red line is superimposed on the composition’s elements, crossing through it from end to end, both horizontally and vertically. Geometric and figurative motifs, in white against a black background, appear here and there: straight lines, grids, human or animal anatomical details, vegetal motifs…
When talking about his drawings, mounir fatmi evokes the presence of « a mutilated body, composed and recomposed ». The paintings seem to create a laboratory, an operating room, the attempt to reunite the scattered limbs of a hybrid creature: a leg here, an eye there, a semi-human, semi-animal mouth over there. They constitute a field of plastic experimentations where the artist mixes motifs that bring together his inspirations, his artistic sensitivity and elements from his biography, such as emotions or memories. Such an arrangement brings to mind another operating room scene within mounir fatmi’s artistic corpus: that of the Healing of Deacon Justinian, thanks to the transplant of a limb and the intervention of saints Cosmas and Damian. This subject is addressed in the video and photography projects entitled « The Angel’s Black Leg », inspired by the 15th century painting by Fra Angelico. mounir fatmi’s works of art connect the miraculous healing found in religious iconography to the question of cultural hybridization, which is at the heart of his reflections and at the foundation of all his work.
The paintings from the series « Fragile » express the desire to go back to the origins of artistic creation. They aim to explore a primitive and original form of creative energy, a crude, nearly unprocessed matter. They stir up a primordial soup where motifs are still indistinct, sometimes combined or giving birth to new life forms. Their gesture is inspired by various techniques and tries to follow and observe minute variations in energy and rhythm. « Fragile » has an aspect that can seem to be the opposite of the materiality and solidity of monumental installations created by the artist, though they too are evocative of a weakness – in particular « After the Fall », created with horse jumping bars – the weakness of our mental constructs and of our relation to reality.
Studio Fatmi, January 2018. |
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