The Poetry of Fluids - Part II: Group show

With a selection of artworks by : 

Pierre ALECHINSKY / Eugène BOUDIN / Robert COMBAS / Marc DESGRANDSCHAMPS / Bernard FRIZE / Jacin GIORDANO / Anselm KIEFER / Henri MICHAUX / Jessica RANKIN / Pierre ROY / Gérard SCHLOSSER / Bernard SZAJNER

The natural course of the elements and their flows have aroused great interest among poets such as Lamartine, for whom the movement of air and water produce a feeling imbued with great sensitivity:

“ (…)

The harmonious Ether, in its azure waves,

Envelopes the mountains with a fluid of greater purity;

Their outlines that it extinguishes, their peaks that it erases,

Seem to swim in the air and tremble in space,

As we see to the depths of a resting sea

The shadow of its shore, undulating under the waves!

In this rayless light, more serene than an aurora,

To the contemplative eye the earth seems to bloom;

She unfolds her diverse distant horizons

Where the hand that sculpted the universe was played!

There, like a wave, undulates a hill,

There, the hill pursues the hill which recedes,

And the valley, veiled in curtains of greenery,

Hollows itself out like a bed for shade and for water;

Here extends the plain, where, as on the shore,

The wave of cobs lowers and rises again;

There, like a serpent whose knots are broken,

The river, renewing its interrupted waves,

Traces its silver course with countless meanders,

Losing itself under the hill and reappearing in the shadows.

(...)”

This poetry of fluids continues to occupy the works of many artists today, such as Schlosser's It Happens Quickly, where the “wave of the groynes” and the undulation of waves are the omen of a future hazard. But in this exhibition, fluids are not reduced to their flow alone, they are exploited in all possible forms of flow, both through “stoppage, the dam, the tumults and the drought”[1]. Shown by Anselm Kieffer's Aperiatur Terra, a desert landscape where only the arid traces of fluids remain. In Jessica Rankin's compositions, it is the fluidity of the material and not its representation which is spontaneously engaged.

For this second part of “The Poetry of Fluids”, Samuel Le Paire Fine Art invites you to continue to explore fluids, their movements and their absence.

 Justin RAGUIN