Hannah Collins, Paul-Armand Gette, Annette Messager, Martha Wilson - FIAC - Art fairmfc-michèle didier | Paris - Brussels -
FIAC 2017
October 19-22, 2017
Paris, France
For its 30th year, the Parisian gallery and publishing house mfc-michèle didier proposes for the FIAC a sensitive booth through a selection of artworks from seven artists: Ida Applebroog, Hannah Collins, Paul-Armand Gette, Annette Messager, Camille Moravia, Athena Tacha and Martha Wilson.
From a scientific perspective, touching is seen as the original act, essential to human being. Indeed, it is able to evolve without seeing or hearing, but he cannot live whithout touching and being touched. However, sight may assist this touching necessity or even remlace it. This need of touch leading sometimes to the desire to touch.
From the Museum instruction «Please touch only with your eyes» to Duchamp?s instruction «Prière de toucher» are the works of these seven artists. Seven artists whose approach of body and touch reveals their commitment as much as their risk taking.
The thin publication of It?s very simple - A performance by Ida Applebroog is printed in an only color?blu. A drawing, sometimes two, occupying the almost whole page, is repeated on all the pages. This repetition obliges to imagine the body of the perfromance.
Hannah Collins?s Hair Shawl represents a massive hair in black and white. A series of little glass eyes hunging on the hair have been painted in color on this «hair shawl». Despite being from the back, this body looks at us and invites us to look back at him. This artwork approaches the body not only by the sight or the touch but, as well, through what Deleuze calls?in Francis Bacon. Logique de la sensation?the haptic. This «third eye» that «does not oppose two sense organs but supposes that the eye is itself able to have this function that is not optical». With Hair Shawl, Hannah Collins makes visible a corporal way to apprehend the look.
Recent publication of mfc-michèle didier, Cinématographies by Paul-Armand Gette is what might be called an «essay on photographical set classification». Actually, since 1970, the artist?s work has been mainly dedicated to model study. This leads to a large amount of pictures that he describes himself as Cinématographies. In this part of the work of the artist, even if sometimes the photograph gets closer to the model, there is never any contact. In this way the artist banishes touch but does not annihilate its effect.
Mes dessins secrets is one of Annette Messager?s albums which gathers untidily 76 erotic freehand drawings by the artist on various papers from notepads and notebooks. The album seems like a private diary that relates with more or less precision and realism, a woman sexual life at a time when the perfect housewife stereotype prevailed.
With Expressions 1 (A Study of Facial Motions) a serial work by Athena Tacha, the artist shows us how the body becomes language.
With Nympha Nocturna ssp. Rosea P. A. G., Paul-Armand Gette allows us to touch the silky material of a black and pink little panty put into an insect box. Erotic substitution of female body, this lingerie will finally get out from its box, weared by Camille Moravia and photographed 22 years later by Paul-Armand Gette.
Five photographies titled Cinématographie - Le modèle et son peintre, will attest the presence of the artist that moves the lingerie on the body of the model and adjust the creased fabric.
Finally, we will show at FIAC The Arnotated Alice, a work of 1976 by Martha Wilson, that permitted to the artist to rewrite Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
FIAC 2017
October 19-22, 2017
Paris, France
For its 30th year, the Parisian gallery and publishing house mfc-michèle didier proposes for the FIAC a sensitive booth through a selection of artworks from seven artists: Ida Applebroog, Hannah Collins, Paul-Armand Gette, Annette Messager, Camille Moravia, Athena Tacha and Martha Wilson.
From a scientific perspective, touching is seen as the original act, essential to human being. Indeed, it is able to evolve without seeing or hearing, but he cannot live whithout touching and being touched. However, sight may assist this touching necessity or even remlace it. This need of touch leading sometimes to the desire to touch.
From the Museum instruction «Please touch only with your eyes» to Duchamp?s instruction «Prière de toucher» are the works of these seven artists. Seven artists whose approach of body and touch reveals their commitment as much as their risk taking.
The thin publication of It?s very simple - A performance by Ida Applebroog is printed in an only color?blu. A drawing, sometimes two, occupying the almost whole page, is repeated on all the pages. This repetition obliges to imagine the body of the perfromance.
Hannah Collins?s Hair Shawl represents a massive hair in black and white. A series of little glass eyes hunging on the hair have been painted in color on this «hair shawl». Despite being from the back, this body looks at us and invites us to look back at him. This artwork approaches the body not only by the sight or the touch but, as well, through what Deleuze calls?in Francis Bacon. Logique de la sensation?the haptic. This «third eye» that «does not oppose two sense organs but supposes that the eye is itself able to have this function that is not optical». With Hair Shawl, Hannah Collins makes visible a corporal way to apprehend the look.
Recent publication of mfc-michèle didier, Cinématographies by Paul-Armand Gette is what might be called an «essay on photographical set classification». Actually, since 1970, the artist?s work has been mainly dedicated to model study. This leads to a large amount of pictures that he describes himself as Cinématographies. In this part of the work of the artist, even if sometimes the photograph gets closer to the model, there is never any contact. In this way the artist banishes touch but does not annihilate its effect.
Mes dessins secrets is one of Annette Messager?s albums which gathers untidily 76 erotic freehand drawings by the artist on various papers from notepads and notebooks. The album seems like a private diary that relates with more or less precision and realism, a woman sexual life at a time when the perfect housewife stereotype prevailed.
With Expressions 1 (A Study of Facial Motions) a serial work by Athena Tacha, the artist shows us how the body becomes language.
With Nympha Nocturna ssp. Rosea P. A. G., Paul-Armand Gette allows us to touch the silky material of a black and pink little panty put into an insect box. Erotic substitution of female body, this lingerie will finally get out from its box, weared by Camille Moravia and photographed 22 years later by Paul-Armand Gette.
Five photographies titled Cinématographie - Le modèle et son peintre, will attest the presence of the artist that moves the lingerie on the body of the model and adjust the creased fabric.
Finally, we will show at FIAC The Arnotated Alice, a work of 1976 by Martha Wilson, that permitted to the artist to rewrite Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
Exposed artworks
Insect box, Museum model, contains a pair of pink and black panties
14.17 x 15.35 x 1.97 in ( 36 x 39 x 5,5 cm cm )
Cardboard portfolio, contains 76 facsimile drawings
12.6 x 9.45 in ( 32 x 24 cm )
Silkscreen and painting on blackout fabric
54.72 x 38.98 in ( 139 x 99 cm )