Fabienne Levy invites Taste Contemporary to create dialogues between different artists.
In art, boundaries are by no means obstacles, but rather a catalyst for transcending limits. All the works presented here celebrate the unlimited capacity of the human mind to create and invent. Every brushstroke, every sculptural form and every installation calls for reflection.
The first room invites the audience to meditate upon the concept of time in our modern world. Andrea Galvani's works are about time. Time is the Enemy suspends the moment. His towering piece, composed of Maxwell's equations, is a hymn to the world as it is today. These formulas are the basis of all communication systems: we are simultaneously highly connected, yet we're often unable to communicate with one another. Finally, Anne Marie Laureys' ceramics take on a variety of shapes, as the artist pushes back the boundaries of form. The variation of colours evokes a universe where time itself seems frozen.
Crossing boundaries also means inviting the audience to stop for a moment.
The second and third rooms focus on movement. Norbert Bisky presents two paintings, highlighting the heroic gestures of the represented bodies. A master of colour, Norbert explores its limits, compelling the viewer into his work. Catherine Bolle's approach is revealed through the transparency of her materials and the imprints she leaves on them, taking us to witness the thin junction between matter and thought. Jamais is a stele of conversation, a reflection between the understandable and the unintelligible. Johannes Nagel's ceramics are focused on an explosion of colours and jagged shapes, which the artist creates with the ancient technique of sand molds. The set of neon sculptures hanging above the audience in the second room materialise equations that have radically changed our understanding of reality and the complexity of the Universe. They bring together mental abstractions and physical phenomena that originate in different aspects of our lives. By blurring the traditional boundaries between fantasy and reality, Mexican-American artist Daniela Edburg challenges us to question our own understanding of truth, inviting us to explore the subtle nuances that exist between these two often intertwined worlds. Meanwhile Babs Haenen's ceramics are made from a mixture of fabric and porcelain.
Each artist transcends the boundaries of the concrete world and conventional thinking.
Fabienne Levy
Geneva
Avenue Louis-Ruchonnet 6
1003 Lausanne
Switzerland
9 December 2023–1 January 2024
Lausanne
Rue des Vieux-Grenadiers 2
1205 Geneva
Switzerland
14 December 2023–27 January 2024