Opening Thursday, November 5 at 18h
Exhibition from Friday 6 to Saturday, November 28, 2009
Breath 1, drawing Digital engraving on paper, 50 x 40 cm, 2008
Imagination Richard Tronson, at first glance, look for the unusual, the inexplicable, the bizarre. While the effect here is not to say, the explanation who appears ostensibly as a deficit.
look at them ... So, all these images woven unusual, even if only to verify this: all depict a internal contradiction. Between the actions or attitudes of the protagonists photographed, for example, who always seem far from ours, against the grain of our stereotypical attitudes. One thinks also frequently a world of crazy, strange creatures, sleepwalking, torn from ordinary logic lines (this also accentuated the fact that many of the photographs to elect under the hospital). Another internal contradiction: the contradiction between a visual universe always found where the characters cavort, whether the hospital, townhouse or back rooms, and the position What adopt these characters themselves, invariably out. Another contradiction finally, an aesthetic one: the perfect legibility of the visual image in terms that matched the imperfect appreciation of the action frame to it. Difference obviously calculated by the artist, and coming mark the boundary between the world of its own coherence and incoherence image that presides over its perception. Paul Ardenne
