17
Exhibition
Heaps and other shapes by default
fri 30 January - thu 12 March 2009
Contemporary Blindarte is pleased to announce the second solo gallery exhibition of French artist Simon Boudvin from 31 January to 13 March 2009. Urban and suburban landscapes are constantly evolving. Places that previously had a specific destination change their utility and adapt their form to new different functions. Some of these changes are captured by the artist's lens. Like the elevated elevations, buildings with peculiar architectural features and other places photographed or the result of the skilful use of photomontage, landfills, represented in the four new works exhibited in the gallery, also become emblematic places of our time that, with their heaps of similar material accumulated casually, recreate a new scenario, often much wilder than the place they were before.
And it is precisely on the places destined for the accumulation of waste materials from construction or industrial products that the artist focuses his attention this time, leaving open the question of their future in terms of recycling and thus the possibility of their reuse. In the video 'The Architect', also on show, a magical metal cube moves autonomously through the impervious shapes of the ruins of a demolished building, jumping and rolling over the piles of material. The artist, locked inside the cube, recreates a poetic image where the figure, geometric and dynamic at the same time, moves in a desolate context, like a spaceship on an alien planet. The artist-architect thus seeks comfort in the basic element of construction, a rule and a role that counteracts anarchy, balancing the chaotic consequences of progress and perhaps finding in the cube itself the origin of a new construction.