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Rui Chafes, O ar doce e duro da eternidade  2023. 
Fer patiné noir. 47 x 97 x 33 cm

BERNARD BOUCHE

Adrien Belgrand, L’Atelier, 2023, Acrylique sur toile, 160 x 210 cm

By Lara Sedbon

Bigaignon

Fernando Marante (en dialogue avec Hans Kooi)

Ballet Mécanique

  • Variation 140 
Photograph (2021), Pigment ink on Fine Art Hahnemühle PhotoRag Baryta paper 315gsm 
75 x 60 cm
Edition 3 + 1AP

Variation 140 Photograph (2021), Pigment ink on Fine Art Hahnemühle PhotoRag Baryta paper 315gsm 75 x 60 cm Edition 3 + 1AP

It is with great excitement that we prepare to introduce you to the work of Fernando Marante, shown for the first time at the gallery, in an exhibition focused on movement, named after Fernand Léger’s famous experimental film (1924). This « Ballet Mécanique”, driven by the need for research, invention and experimentation with the very materiality of the cinematographic device, perfectly illustrates the intention of transfiguring time and movement into a visual essay that the images of Fernando Marante evoke. His work will dialogue with the works of the artist Hans Kooi.

In his quest, Fernando tries to demonstrate visually, in a unique manner, the fact that existence is only a speculation, that an image would not be visible between two given times. Through movement, the artist uses time as a tool to formally play with variation, multiplication and addition, contraction and distension, accumulation and disintegration. He creates images that are patterns of intent, visual imprints of all the decisions made during the photographic process.

Movement, duration and accumulation are manifestations of time. Time flows voraciously, unwinding an endless line of perpetual “nows.” It is a powerful abstraction and yet we feel it in every aspect of our lives and thoughts. If we experience time as an uninterrupted fugue, and we know that the camera allows us to capture this movement to some extent, how can we use it to reveal the persistence of the things around us? In other words, how do we find the images we assume exist between the thin slices of existence that snapshots offer us?

These are the questions that lead Fernando Marante to want to fix the visual manifestation of an idea, transferring a speculation born of language into a medium that belongs to the world of the senses. To bridge the two realities, each series begins with a possibility: What happens if an object is subjected to a reaction related to time? To initiate the process, the Portuguese artist builds temporary devices to induce movement to pieces of paper, plastic, glass, metal cables or lights, using electric motors, fans or his own body. And then he waits for an image to occur, unpredictable. These uncontrollable variables generate what he calls his “image-hypotheses ».

He is interested in creating in the viewer the perception that there is a process. Ultimately, each image is a map of the decisions he makes in creating them and that is the only narrative he allows in his photographs.

From Calder’s mobiles to the optical-kinetic works of Vasarely or François Morellet, kinetic art encompasses a wide variety of overlapping techniques and styles, and with his post-photography, Fernando Marante approaches the possibilities of materials, questioning the mechanics of visibility while exploring what remains between the possible and the desired.

Alongside the images of Fernando Marante will be exhibited, with the collaboration of the Denise René gallery, a couple of works by Hans Kooi, one of the most important artist of the kinetic art
movement.

 

Exhibition from April 18 to May 28, 2023.

Rendez-Vous

Sunday 28 May 2023 from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Last day of the exhibition of Fernando Marante

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18 Rue du Bourg Tibourg
Paris, France
0183560582 bigaignon.com

The gallery

Bigaignon is a light-sensitive contemporary art gallery. The line of the gallery finds its roots in the avant-garde movements of light and space, minimalism, abstract art, concrete photography and constructivism, and is built upon the strong conviction that photography has entered a new era. Profoundly engaged in the promotion of artists who work with the fundamental elements of light and time, whatever the medium they use, the gallery is contributing to the rise of a new avant-garde. As such, with a strong international focus, it defends and promotes the unique vision of artists it represents or supports, whether they be emerging, mid-career or established worldwide, in their quest to propose a new visual vocabulary, challenge the photographic medium and explore the full extent of its possibilities.

Gallery artists

Anne-Camille Allueva, Lionel Bayol-Thémines, Catherine Balet, Renato D'Agostin, Máté Dobokay, Harold Feinstein, Vittoria Gerardi, Ralph Gibson, Yannig Hedel, Hideyuki Ishibashi, Bernard Joubert, Morvarid K, Denis Malartre, Fernando Marante, Rémi Noël, Thomas Paquet, Jean de Pomereu, Aleksandra Vajd, Thierry Urbain

In the thematic « Contemporary Art »

Pancho QUILICI - 2023,

Galerie Wagner

Pancho QUILICI 1954

Ex Situ

Andre Wendland, Rope Pulling Peggy, 2023, 170 x 140 cm, unique

Galerie Droste

André Wendland 1995, Allemagne

MUSCLE MANIACS - no paint no gain

Dora Garcia, Untitled, 2023, crayon et pastel sur papier, 42 x 58 cm, oeuvre unique, signé et daté au dos

Michel Rein

Dora Garcia 1965, Espagne

L'insecte

In the thematic « Photography »

Laurent Lafolie, sans titre #1, série LaLettre, 2022, courtesy Galerie Binome
Lithophanie, porcelaine gravée rétroéclairée, encadrement boîte et dispositif d’éclairage LED avec variateur
pièce unique - 21 x 29,7 cm

Galerie Binome

Laurent Lafolie 1963, France

U⋂

Yu Nishimura, girl with glasses, 2022, oil on canvas, 194 x 130.3 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Crèvecœur, Paris. ©Aurélien Mole

Crèvecœur

Portraits — Group show

Georges Noël, Printemps nordique, 1985. Technique mixte. 155 x 149 x 4.2 cm. Courtesy Estate Georges Noël & Galerie Christophe Gaillard. © Georges Noël, ADAGP, Paris, 2023.

Galerie Christophe Gaillard

Georges Noël 1924 — 2010, France

"Un coup de dés n’abolira le hasard"

Marina Gadonneix 1977, France

Recording in progress

In the thematic « Sculpture »

Jennifer Caubet, photo Nicolas Boone

Jousse Entreprise

Jennifer Caubet 1982, France

Look at Me Throught the Eyes of Apollo, 2022, 310 x 100 x 90  cm, aluminium plexiglass et acier.

Galerie RX

Mrdjan BAJIC 1957, Serbie

Frontière

El Anatsui 1944, Ghana

Gaetan Dubroca Rose on Blue, 2019, Impression jet d’encre pigmentaire sur papier fine art, 40x60 cm

Galerie du Lendemain

Subjective beauté. Le choix du corps masculin — Group show

In the tour « Marais »

Keiji Uematsu, Floating stone - Earthrise, 2020, Drawing on inkjet print, 21x 29,7 cm © Keiji Uematsu courtesy baudoin lebon

baudoin lebon

Keiji Uematsu 1947, Japon

Looking back on the past from the future

Jérôme Borel, L'étang, Acrylique sur toile, Acrylic on canvas, 46 x 38 cm, 18 x 15 in, 2022

Galerie Olivier Waltman

Jérôme Borel 1958, France

STATION

Antoine Petel, 2021, Grande homéostasie, inox, époxy, pigments, acrylique, 172 x 104cm

LIUSA WANG

Antoine Petel 1956, France

Ecloses

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