elmar trenkwalder et augustin lesage les inspirés

LA MAISON ROUGE
10 boulevard de la bastille à PARIS

11.06.2008 – 7.09.2008

The inspiration of the exposition IS inspiration. The French outsider artist Augustin Lesage believes invisible spirits inhibit him and guide him in his work, and Austrian Painter and Sculptor Elmar Trenkwalder speaks of an intuitive force that drives him. Although extremely different in medium and aesthetic, the combination is something to behold. Coupled with the Birdhouse Café the entire experience seemed to be majical and transcendent.

The building is made to view art, it neither imposes its presence on you or the work, nor does it complicate your experience. It is simple and minimalistic with a meandering layout. The mixture of institutional light and sunlight lifted the feel of the experience, and the smell and sound from the Birdhouse Café helped to trick you into believing this other worldly experience.

andrea blum – birdhouse café

11Juin – 5 Octobre 2008
(ci-dissous pour française)

For la maison rouge, Andrea Blum has imagined a pavilion that stands on piles in the middle of the patio, which she transforms into an aviary.
Birdhouse Café (the project’s name) is intended as an extension of the Foundation’s own café, a social setting where people can meet over a drink or meal, and a place from which to observe and admire the birds as they fly around.
In a subtle switch, the observer becomes the observed: visitors sit perched inside the café, pecking at their food, while the birds fly “freely” around the pavilion. Not without a certain tongue-in-cheek humour, she turns the tables one more time by including in her project the glass-walled corridors of the exhibition space around the patio, where visitors gather to see what’s going on.
A la frontière entre art, design et architecture les œuvres d’Andrea Blum (vit et travaille à New York) retiennent toujours l’attention par la simplicité des formes, voire leur radicalité et l’efficacité dans l’usage qu’elle leur confère.

Pour la maison rouge, Andrea Blum a imaginé d’inscrire un café à la forme d’un bungalow sur pilotis, planté au centre du patio transformé pour l’occasion en volière.

L’artiste renverse subtilement les positions entre regardeur et regardé : le public enfermé dans son perchoir adopte la position habituelle des oiseaux, qui eux gravitent “librement” dans l’enceinte du patio.