Rodolphe Delaunay: Measure for Measure
Opening on Thursday 1 st October 18h
Exhibition from Friday, October 2 to Thursday, October 29, 2009.
Rodolphe Delaunay was born in 1984, he lives and works in Paris.
The title of the exhibition of Rudolph echoed Shakespeare's play, unclassifiable piece whose story revolves around the notion of ambivalence and contradiction.
Rodolphe Delaunay is a storyteller, it is by his attention, his ability to "collect in the folds of reality" that trigger is fiction. Close to the idea of mysticism in the possibility of revelation, Rudolph captures the signals and then he interprets the move operation allows a reinterpretation of reality. Thus, it highlights the unspeakable by its specific provisions, its ability to understand the signs, then it scrambles to create narratives leaving some doubt and not engaged only under certain conditions (angle of view, temporality, title ...).
walk in the moonlight is an installation created in 2009, consisting of 33 laps of a sonata by Beethoven (Sonata No. 14 Op 27, No 2 known as Moonlight), and a motor Telescope . The disk spins at dizzying speed of one revolution per day, so it is not possible to perceive the movement of rotation, no sound is heard. Another installation entitled From the Earth to the moon and back by a mirror, we present the cover of the book by Jules Verne with the same title, but reversed. The artist allows us to travel and especially Moon proposes that we return. Rodolphe Delaunay therefore manipulates a set of signs in a normal context have several meanings or forming our fields of knowledge. It is this knowledge that the artist pushes instilling items parasitizing and it moves the certainty of the viewer to a lower probability of reading and therefore understanding. Chance is an important approach in the work of this artist since the encounter with these signs is so coincidental. The work S years 2009 title is a print of a scanned document in a book History of Art. This is a double page showing two paintings of Vermeer. Chance of layout creates an additional link. The character of right panel, a geographer looking out the window and ends up trying to watch the back of a young woman in blue. By extrapolation, a link to love weaves between these two characters who do in fact have none. Rodolphe Delaunay, as a collector, accumulating a sum of images but also knowledge that away then, allowing him to challenge systems of referencing. This knowledge is no longer a material the artist works in complete freedom to infuse poetry and narrative. The works resulting from this work are the kinds of reflections, echoes of what already exists but has been distorted.
Yann Perol