MICHEL BLAZY
8/11 - 16/12/2000
Opening
in
presence of the artist
Michel Blazy is born in 1966 in
Recent
Exhibitions (selection):
2000 Les animaux en voie de disparition, Art: Concept Gallery,
Univers en expansion: La chute des colonnes,
Green
House Effects, Serpentine Gallery,
Jour
de fête, Centre Georges Pompidou, Beaubourg,
1998 The life of things,
Correct Contemporary Exhibitions,
1997 La vie
des Choses, ARC, Musée d’Art
Moderne de la ville de
Paris, Paris
The gallery Unlimited Contemporary Art opened in April 1996
with an exhibition of
the french artist Michel Blazy and is very pleased to present his new works to the greek public.
The exhibition takes place at the occasion of the artist’s
residence in
Since his early exhibitions (1990-92), Blazy
describes his work as a small activity,
using living matter (animal or vegetable), non-solid substances. He allows
things to take over, creates environments propitious to their good will, conductive to the development
of his organisms (encouragment structures). His
installations are olfactory and tactile as well as visible but can only be
perceived over time: the process, the evolution, the temporal quality and the
effort of the artist are the catalyst.
With sculptures, ephemeral installations (which can be
purchased as a video-certificate) or photographs and drawings, M. Blazy proposes a privileged space where the everyday life
and banality are reinvested with humour and humility, far from the spectacular
or the over bid that define our relation to the aseptised
contemporary world. Progress and catastrophe, success and failure are words out
of context in Blazy’s work, in which the desire to
see prevails over the will to know and control.
The catalogue The animals
(continuation of the first issue The Plants)
edited by the Art Center of Bretigny/Orge (