the CCC will be presenting the next major personal exhibition by Pierre Ardouvin.\u2028The exhibition will bring together two essential focuses of the artist\u2019s work, installations and drawing, which he has always developed in complementary and related fashion. It will therefore be divided between the vast maze of the \u201cEmpty House\u201d, a large and previously unseen installation, and a group of some fifty graphic works dating from 1992 up to the present day.<\/p>\n
Making one\u2019s way through the meandering alleyways of the \u201cEmpty House\u201d will be complemented by another form of labyrinth, a mental maze this time, created by the drawings: this bringing together of different periods in his career and different types of images, and of recollections of past projects since carried out, will provide us with an equally sinuous and reduced itinerary through the artist\u2019s imagination. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe Empty House\u201d is an installation produced for the exhibition in its extended and definitive form (following and earlier reduced version presented at the Villa du Parc d\u2019Annemasse in 2008). At the CCC, it will transform almost all of the total area into a huge chaotic labyrinth.\u2028The initially playful experience it provides, not unlike a fairground attraction, rapidly takes on overtones of strangeness. The work is made up of rickety partitions as fragile as a house of cards and evocative of the broken lines of expressionist film sets in which madness and anxiety lurk, as in Murnau\u2019s \u201cNosferatu\u201d or Robert Wiene\u2019s \u201cThe Cabinet of Doctor Caligari\u201d. Sound, which always has a major presence in Ardouvin\u2019s creations, also works to confuse our points of reference: doors bang and we don\u2019t know where or why, complicating our perception of space and amplifying the feeling of loss and disorientation. This aimless wandering around the \u201cEmpty House\u201d, through doors that lead nowhere but back to themselves finally plunges us into the midst of an absurdist dream.<\/p>\n
The exhibition\u2019s other focus comprises a large room of drawings, bringing together for the first time a logical ensemble representative of all the artists\u2019 graphic work produced since 1992. For Ardouvin, drawing is a spontaneous activity that he carries out in constant and recurrent fashion, and which has a number of different functions: a means of noting down ideas or visualising projects, it can also take on a more autonomous status, closer to automatic drawing, to create pure images and visions. Although he sometimes resorts to distorted photographic images and collages, Ardouvin\u2019s first choice is aquarelle, a light technique in line with the spontaneity sought for, and whose reference to the \u201cSunday painter\u201d would in no way displease this lover of forms of popular culture.<\/p>\n
Second part of the exhibition in partnership with Ch\u00e2teau du Rivau. Commencing 18 June
CIRCULATION DE L\u2019\u0152UVRE \u00ab La Maison Vide \u00bb \u00e0 l\u2019ext\u00e9rieur :
Exposition \u00ab Habiter \u00bb, du 31 mai au 1er novembre 2015, Domaine de Chamarande <\/p>\n
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