It will be enough written, and effectively: the work of Karina Bisch and Nicolas Chardon takes the modernist utopias while being freely visited by other historical supply post. But above all, and in particular their collaboration There Is a Love Affair Between the White Cube and the Black Square, the two artists sought a confrontation with the heterogeneity of time and space not only in contemporary artistic practice but also, particularly in the fabric of contemporary life. This new arrangement Bisch / Chardon is particularly relevant in this effort. He settled in different locations, immersing himself in their specificity: a disused place used as an exhibition in Utrecht, a dark place dedicated to the show Rezé, the White Hall Museum of Fine Arts in Nantes ... I myself was impressed when I invited them (separately) with Diogo pimentão to participate in our exhibition in Viseu Utopomorphies #. Full installation in a warehouse basement, their desire to invest the roughness of the time this was radiant. Their perception of time is that of sedimentation of modern artistic elements in the most advanced flow which equates forget them or manipulate them at will.
The starting point of the Love Affair is a question which, in addition to the historic meeting of the monochrome or abstraction, of the binary black and white, intends to analyze the transition from square to cube of the volume level. Karina Bisch and Nicolas Chardon suggest that this would be an operation of love. In a snub to their inner life (they are a couple of artists) they take up most of utopias that punctuates the creation since the nineteenth century, that of the fusion between art and life. Theory coupled with practical until there is no separation, their Love Affair moved to this housing unit in Briey-en-Forêt (Meurthe et Moselle).
Unit Housing Briey was a long battle with the first episode took place during the fifties until 1959, when the first work, and the second of which lasted from 1966 to 1983. Criticized at first by its location and for its costs, it became obsolete, a huge ship in the middle of a forest, pale symbol of the meeting between Mr. Jeanneret modernist genius and that of Mr. Hulot.
Le Corbusier anticipated this meeting in its own way in the transition from pure mathematics to the body and the human dimension. Thus, the adaptation index Modulor universal human scale to space by through the golden number. His constant search for the ideal living space is enhanced by the staging room, he loved photographing empty with a fish in the kitchen, or a hat thrown there by chance ... More than dream of a lifetime and impulsive groping ("... I remember murmuring of life, resonant laughter of children ... - Guy Vattier, warm advocate of housing unit Briey-en-Forêt about the past three years there) Le Corbusier imagined, by its construction, an ideal life where skyscrapers are "signs of the spirit." Thus
Karina Bisch and Nicolas Chardon take this space as a place imbued with a philosophy of life that has faced real life. Such is the desire of the Love Affair. The arrangement works in space recalls the neat photographs of Le Corbusier, but claimed that he even tried to avoid: a passage size between the work and life, even if they are inevitably associated. All proposed works seem imbued with a "knowingly" flexibility. Black bar, Nicolas Chardon, whose size is defined in situ, seems to be the materialization of a line and its consequent interaction in space. Square and Heart Unit Housing Karina Bisch taking on board its universal emotional, but without illusions: a stylized heart formed by squares and the front of the housing unit as the distorted figures of the paintings of Nicolas Chardon.
Modernism was it utopia or thrown ahead of time always looking back? The transition between the black square and the white cube, between the plane and the volume could well be a space of time is blowing past, present and future. A Love Affair.
Joana Neves, May 2008 Written and published
Text for the exhibition There is a love affair between the white cube and the black square , La Galerie Blanche, Unité d'habitation Le Corbusier, Briey-en-Forêt
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