LES TROIS MOUSEKETEERS - TOUT POUR RIEN
FABIENNE AUDÉOUD - DAN MITCHELL - JOHN RUSSELL
26 FEB - 29 MAY 2022
CAC - LA SYNAGOGUE DE DELME
John Russell: Altar, 2022 Metal on wooden plinth, glass and neon 8’6” 5’7 x 6’7” feet
Dan Mitchell et John Russell: Posters, 2021, CMYK prints
Dan Mitchell: Asparagus
Fabienne Audeoud: Oil paintings and mannequins
…”presenting monumental installations, gestural and figurative paintings, posters with turbulent slogans, sculptures and promotional displays, #LesTroisMouseketeers aims to present the aging of individuals, patriarchy, and the realm of images, all in an extravagant and theatrical manner…. …
"On the rostrum, a monumental zimmer frame (walker) sits prominently on a dance podium. The artwork evokes the geriatric world, without broaching it from a critical point of view, but a more performative one, based on the activity of the elderly. It is a marker of old age that the artist compares to a form of “expressionism” appropriate to this age category: incontinence, singing and dancing whenever you feel like it without concern for onlookers, saying things you shouldn’t say… This object is therefore combined with the world of dance and nightclubs, thanks to a luminous podium, evoking a festive energy. It is pointing the way to heaven and outer space via an inflatable orange segment, reminiscent of a William Blake’ sunset as well as a vitamin C advertising. Exaggerated in this way, the zimmer frame appears as an amusing and surprising – if ambivalent – attraction, while playing a central role in this former place of worship, that of the divinity, conferring to it the role of sculpture to be venerated. A series of posters made by the artists and unifying the works in the exhibition covers a large part of the wall space, in the form of public postering, instead of museum hangings. Their graphic design and visual communication does not concern a commodity or a particular ideology. Beyond true and false, their slogans spring from posters and return in the images, objects, and bodies, without seeking to convince…
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