Pascale Marthine Tayou - Black Forest
by Jérôme Sans
© 2019, Éditions Hervé Chopin, Paris / Fondation Clément, Le François
Pagination: 176 pages
Date de parution: 14/12/2019
Edition bilingue: français/anglais
ISBN: 9782357205246
"Black Forest" is conceived as a journey towards unknown and open territories, "a walk in situ at the heart of the tracks of our existential doubts", "a moment of questioning about the imaginary of the great world and its content". Like an introspective, it deploys the artist's vocabulary of multiple and deliberately mobile writings, suspended between the dreamlike narrative of the everyday and the need to hybridize situations, human particularities and geographies.
More than fifty works, iconic pieces and new productions, form a pathway during which the artist touches on the cardinal points of contemporary society as well as the themes of the global village, travel, cultural identity, globalisation, the permeability of borders, ecology and contemporary ritualisation. Passing naturally from sculpture to drawing, painting, installation and poetry, Pascale Marthine Tayou offers a different view of everyday life under an apparent aesthetic detachment. Fictional narratives and rituals overlap and intermingle in a happy cacophony that celebrates this new poetry of the human...
Black Forest" is a total experience, offered simultaneously to sight, sound and smell, which confronts the visitor with the clash of cultures and invites him to engage with the ever-changing reality of the world in which he lives.
