Nathalie Delasalle ’Incidence’ & Renaud Jacquier Stajnowicz ’A la limite’

Exposition passéeDu 24 janvier au 9 mars 2013

When we first showed works by Renaud Jacquier Stajnowicz in the gallery back in 2000, we discovered explorations of monochrome in movement alongside constructions of color based on transparency. After having experimented with combinations of starker colors, having imposed more immobility on his purpose-made stretchers, and having shifted from stripe to hyphen and explored curves, Jacquier Stajnowicz has now returned to movement and monochrome. Here he develops and creates movements from flat zones of velvety pigments, yielding a sometimes shattering, sometimes motionless, effect.
This is what he has to say about his work :
“There is nothing to ‘see,’ except maybe the relationship of a work-as-object to the place of exhibition and to the beholder. In its monochrome radicality the work shows nothing other than what is there. The issue of the beholder then surges forth in all its severity : Who’s there ? Who’s doing the looking, and how do I look ?

On the upper floor of the gallery we are showing Nathalie Delasalle’s white works, which we first showed during an exhibition titled On White.
Delasalle’s volumes create smooth, even, white surfaces that become active vessels where light rays can display a full range of modulations, thereby embodying—as the artist herself states—a delicate, refined polychromy beneath the apparent monochrome. The incidence of those rays is mobilized toward the creation of rigorous yet tangible reflections. Physicists might appreciate not only the shift from diffuse reflection to specular reflection but also the Snell–Descartes refraction index. Delasalle’s meticulous work on surfaces “slows” or “accelerates” light depending on the degree of polish and the angle of the various surfaces of the volumes she devises, thereby distancing those volumes from their materiality and subjecting them to diurnal flux.

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Nathalie Delasalle ’Incidence’ & Renaud Jacquier Stajnowicz ’A la limite’