Jean-Olivier HUCLEUX, Portrait de Roman Opalka, 1992-1993
TITLE_NAME :
Le Temps
28/10/2017 - 25/11/2017
CHRISTOPHE GAILLARD
5, rue Chapon
75003 Paris
galeriegaillard.com
ALIGHIERO BOETTI, CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI, MARINA GADONNEIX, JEAN-OLIVIER HUCLEUX, ON KAWARA, HANS OP DE BEECK, ROMAN OPALKA, HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
The artists brought together in this show are at the heart of this biographical enterprise. But far from any navel-gazing futility, what ties them all to one another and is deeply rooted in their work is their relationship to time, and more precisely its obsessional nature. Time as a « life project » Opalka would say. A complete surrender. Thus, the works of On Kawara, Jean-Olivier Hucleux, Hans Op de Beeck, Roman Opalka, Marina Gadonneix, Hiroshi Sugimoto or Alighieri Boetti, gathered here together, tell the story of the passage of time, of course, but mostly of the time spent working.
The strength of these works, silent, interior, becomes even more obvious.
To the heralded triumph of oblivion through a dull self-sacrifice, these artists oppose memory and persistence. The victory of remembrance and « being there ». As if the obsession, the mad pursuit, already lost, Hucleux engages in with his drawing, or Opalka with is painting, gave way to a reconciliation with oneself but also with the world, in the peacefulness of a work of art’s « time regained ». A manner of being infinitely present.
28/10/2017 - 25/11/2017
CHRISTOPHE GAILLARD
5, rue Chapon
75003 Paris
galeriegaillard.com
ALIGHIERO BOETTI, CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI, MARINA GADONNEIX, JEAN-OLIVIER HUCLEUX, ON KAWARA, HANS OP DE BEECK, ROMAN OPALKA, HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
The artists brought together in this show are at the heart of this biographical enterprise. But far from any navel-gazing futility, what ties them all to one another and is deeply rooted in their work is their relationship to time, and more precisely its obsessional nature. Time as a « life project » Opalka would say. A complete surrender. Thus, the works of On Kawara, Jean-Olivier Hucleux, Hans Op de Beeck, Roman Opalka, Marina Gadonneix, Hiroshi Sugimoto or Alighieri Boetti, gathered here together, tell the story of the passage of time, of course, but mostly of the time spent working.
The strength of these works, silent, interior, becomes even more obvious.
To the heralded triumph of oblivion through a dull self-sacrifice, these artists oppose memory and persistence. The victory of remembrance and « being there ». As if the obsession, the mad pursuit, already lost, Hucleux engages in with his drawing, or Opalka with is painting, gave way to a reconciliation with oneself but also with the world, in the peacefulness of a work of art’s « time regained ». A manner of being infinitely present.