Fiona Banner, Robert Barry, Guerrilla Girls - ART-O-RAMA - Art fairmfc-michèle didier | Paris - Brussels -
ART-O-RAMA 2017
August 25 - 27, 2017
Marseille, France
For its 4th consecutive participation to Art-O-Rama, the Paris based publishing house and gallery mfc-michèle didier will gather for its booth a selection of artworks by Robert Barry and The Guerrilla Girls.
Two artists questioning language through its textual and/or graphic representation on printed matters.
Robert Barry?s work is intimately connected to language since the 1960?s. The artist uses words, he plays with them, directs them, and questions them. The statements of Somethings that? as short sentences which seem to evoke absolutely nothing, are a major aspect of his practice. Indeed, even though these word combinations are meaningful and grammatically correct, neither image nor transcription is elaborated by the reader?s mind, only the idea of possible figures remains.
With Barry, textual language becomes conceptual, it loses its immediate discursive function to give way to visual language. Visual language indeed in the american artist?s work, based on a most radical and identifiable typographic form. The font used by the artist recalls the visual power of his artworks. The formal plays, such as the text position on the sheet space, trigger the materialization of sentences, words, and even language itself.
For The Guerrilla Girls, having resort to language is a political act. Through the distribution and/or posting of several posters during their various actions in public space, the ?Bad Girls? are looking, among other things, to share a message: ?Opening the public eye to the discrimination which reigns within our artistic institutions?. Their posters therefore are leaflets, and their texts, headlines. Wishing to communicate with the highest number, The Guerrilla Girls use simple but powerful codes, short but incisive texts, black bold or ultra bold capital letters. This efficacy of the the visual vocabulary focuses the attention on the discourse content, that is to be heard.
Far away from Robert Barry?s typewriting series, here, the language is a weapon and girls get straight to the point?!
Conceptual, politic or ironically promotional, the language used by Robert Barry and The Guerrilla Girls is an artistic language. Language they have chosen, to assert and to express. Language that the public of Art-O-Rama will most certainly enjoy to discover.
ART-O-RAMA 2017
August 25 - 27, 2017
Marseille, France
For its 4th consecutive participation to Art-O-Rama, the Paris based publishing house and gallery mfc-michèle didier will gather for its booth a selection of artworks by Robert Barry and The Guerrilla Girls.
Two artists questioning language through its textual and/or graphic representation on printed matters.
Robert Barry?s work is intimately connected to language since the 1960?s. The artist uses words, he plays with them, directs them, and questions them. The statements of Somethings that? as short sentences which seem to evoke absolutely nothing, are a major aspect of his practice. Indeed, even though these word combinations are meaningful and grammatically correct, neither image nor transcription is elaborated by the reader?s mind, only the idea of possible figures remains.
With Barry, textual language becomes conceptual, it loses its immediate discursive function to give way to visual language. Visual language indeed in the american artist?s work, based on a most radical and identifiable typographic form. The font used by the artist recalls the visual power of his artworks. The formal plays, such as the text position on the sheet space, trigger the materialization of sentences, words, and even language itself.
For The Guerrilla Girls, having resort to language is a political act. Through the distribution and/or posting of several posters during their various actions in public space, the ?Bad Girls? are looking, among other things, to share a message: ?Opening the public eye to the discrimination which reigns within our artistic institutions?. Their posters therefore are leaflets, and their texts, headlines. Wishing to communicate with the highest number, The Guerrilla Girls use simple but powerful codes, short but incisive texts, black bold or ultra bold capital letters. This efficacy of the the visual vocabulary focuses the attention on the discourse content, that is to be heard.
Far away from Robert Barry?s typewriting series, here, the language is a weapon and girls get straight to the point?!
Conceptual, politic or ironically promotional, the language used by Robert Barry and The Guerrilla Girls is an artistic language. Language they have chosen, to assert and to express. Language that the public of Art-O-Rama will most certainly enjoy to discover.
Exposed artworks
Digital print on paper
52.36 x 35.04 in ( 133,1 x 89,2 cm )
Edition of 7 + 3 EA
Digital print on paper
53.54 x 35.04 in ( 136,4 x 89,2 cm )
Edition of 7 + 3 EA
Digital print on paper
53.15 x 34.65 in ( 135 x 88,4 cm )
Edition of 7 + 3 EA
Digital print on paper
52.36 x 34.65 in ( 133 x 88,4 cm )
Edition of 7 + 3 EA
Set of three sheets of paper in its portfolio
11.02 x 8.27 in ( 28 x 21,5 x 0,6 cm )
Board Book with round corners, 22 pages
7.87 x 7.87 x 0.39 in ( 20,3 x 20,3 x 1,2 cm )