Répertoire d'Attitudes
Quels sont les gestes de l’artiste ?
Peut-on déterminer et quantifier les actes artistiques propres à chaque artiste, ceux qui restent dans l’atelier et que l’on ne voit jamais ?
Inventorier ces actions dévoile-t-il l’intimité de la création, ou cela reste-il anecdotique ?
Liste d’indices ?
Ce « répertoire d’attitudes » ne contient que des verbes d’actions que je considère comme étant sculpturales, en rapport direct avec mon travail.
Ils ne sont listés qu’à posteriori l’œuvre finie contrairement à Richard Serra pour qui sa « Verb list » (1967) était «un moyen d’appliquer des actions diverses à des matériaux quelconques. » Par conséquent mes travaux ne sont pas définis par cette liste, ce sont eux qui la définissent.
“When I first started, what was very, very important to me was dealing with the nature of process. So what I had done is I’d written a verb list: to roll, to fold, to cut, to dangle, to twist… and I really just worked out pieces in relation to the verb list physically in a space.”
Richard Serra
Répertoire d'Attitudes, 2018
Texte imprimé sur vinyle autocollant
à usage unique
210 x 27 cm
Détails de l'exposition
Indépendamment, les choses se passent Galerie G (La Garde)
What are the artist's gestures?
Can we determine and quantify the artistic acts specific to each artist, those that remain in the studio and that we never see?
Does inventorying these actions reveal the intimacy of creation, or is it anecdotal?
List of clues?
This "repertoire of attitudes" contains only action verbs that I consider sculptural, directly related to my work.
They are listed only after the work is finished, unlike Richard Serra for whom his "Verb list" (1967) was "a means of applying various actions to any material. "Consequently my works are not defined by this list, they are the ones that define it.
“When I first started, what was very, very important to me was dealing with the nature of process. So what I had done is I’d written a verb list: to roll, to fold, to cut, to dangle, to twist… and I really just worked out pieces in relation to the verb list physically in a space.”
Richard Serra