Camille Fallet

Anne Deguelle, Camille Fallet Nemanja Nikolic, Luca Resta, Sebastian Riemer

30.11.2021 - 15.12.2022

Les profonds bouleversements qui ont marqué l'histoire de l'art du XXeme siècle relèvent de figures emblématiques qui ne cessent de susciter le regard de nombreux artistes contemporains. En se limitant à la photographie et à la video, le propos de cette exposition est d'illustrer comment, en évitant l'obstacle de « faire à la manière de », certaines démarches actuelles composent et donnent une nouvelle réalité aux icônes du passé. Present perfect réunit les oeuvres de quatre artistes contemporains qui explorent l'art du XX siècle à travers différents axes : héritage, contemporanéité et célébrité.

PRESENT PERFECT The profound changes that have marked the history of art of the 20th century deal with emblematic gures who ne- ver cease to elicit the gaze of many contemporary artists. By limiting itself to photography and video, the purpose of this exhibition is to illustrate how, by avoiding to do «in the manner of», some current approaches compose and give a new reality to the icons of the past. Present Perfect brings together the works of four contemporary artists who explore the art of the 20th century through di erent axes: heritage, contemporaneity and celebrity. The series Stills by Sebastian Riemer refers direct- ly to iconic artworks by famous artists such as Duchamp, Malevich, Lichstenstein, Magritte or the Guerilla Girls. The source image of that series are slides that show artworks. By a repro- duction in very high de nition and an extreme enlargement of the format, the printing grid highlights that they were shot from books or printed material. Both the image itself and the annotations written on the white edges (captions of the works, or even their source le) testify to the manifest use of these slides for art history audience. Investigating through the destiny of great gures of art, from Beuys to Duchamp, in order to understand how history is reshaped, Anne Deguelle draws from the early youth of these future heroes to capture their adolescent image. In doing so, she emphasizes in her Double Portraits the role of perception that trans gures rea- lity: facing two photographs strictly identical, the eye nevertheless seems to detect di erences between the two images. In “repetere repetere” by Luca Resta, one believes to face tree trunks whose soul would have been partially freed, in a clear refe- rence to Penone. They are in reality peeled and sculpted carrots. Anne Deguelle, Double Portrait, Duchamp silver print, 2 x (80x120 cm ) Between documentary and lyricism, the work of Camille Fallet is also nourished by a search for previous images, linked to a perso- nal imagination. When he revisits Walker Evans, the artist reacti- vates the works of the great pioneer of documentary photography. In doing so, he questions at the same time the notion of author in photography. She Looks Like Alabama Cotton Tenant Farmer Wife 1936, is exemplary of this form of reactivation: this is a portrait in color, not black and white, of a young girl today who looks stran- gely like the farmer wife shot in 1936 by Evans. Animation is the means by which Nemanja Nikolic pays tribute to the seventh art, especially to the great period of American cinema. Double Noir tells the story of a man in pursuit of his own double with only protagonist Humphrey Bogart. The sequences of the newly created ction are drawn with white chalk on blackboard and are inspired by several lms featuring the iconic actor of the lm noir. A reactivated and composed past to give shape to a new lm.