INSTRUCTIONS POUR COUPER LES FICELLES
2020-10-26The exhibition brings together four artists (Gayle Chong Kwan, Gaetano Cunsolo, Léonard Martin & João Vilhena) from different backgrounds whose practice often reveals what hides behind the artwork’s production, what is offstage.
In 1969 Julio Cortázar publishes the sequel of his “Instructions on How to Climb a Staircase”. In this text, he writes a guide to climb a staircase upside down. The nature of a user manual is treated in a parodic way following a series of disconcerting instructions.
Under the gaze of Cortázar’s instructions, each work could be a step to follow from a non-prescriptive and non-linear manual.
Once cut, the strings no longer connect the work and its author. It is with the action of the viewer that they catch their breath, that the scenery is rebuilt and moved by the thrill of new perspectives.
Opposite – Gaetano Cunsolo, Mets-la en sourdine #3, 2020
Exhibition runs through to December 5th, 2020
Galerie Alberta Pane
47 Rue de Montmorency
75003 Paris
