Exhibition

July 8 and 9, 2011, public opening on Thursday, July 7, 2011 from 6:30PM
AtelierNational, 67 rue Hoche, 13003 Marseille

“Faire un coup de calcaire” is a popular expression used to describe a sudden and unpredictable outburst of anger or incident, somewhat like a small piece of limestone that has slowly formed in an artery or pipe and suddenly breaks free under pressure in an unexpected and brutal way… with the consequences one might imagine. From there, one can detect several analogies with this guiding thread in the synthetic exhibition that the residents of Triangle create at the National Workshop. Literally, there is a taste for materials that have been long assembled through patient phenomena of concretions, for pertinently layered surfaces where powders and residues mix and separate, attracting and repelling each other, for shapes and countershapes, contents escaping from containers that still bear the traces of previous contents. Figuratively, one can see in these slow formations a concentrated, vital energy, overflowing with the tension of resin, mineral fragments in a photo, or a situation spiraling out of control between seemingly placid protagonists. In short, art, Apollonian in nature, arranges, separates, and orders. But even Apollo, tempted by his Dionysian demons, under the Marseille sun that sometimes burns as much as it soothes, is not safe from a sudden “coup de calcaire.”