Anne Wenzel

Marais
from Apr 7, 2018 to May 12, 2018

History Repeating

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Pour History Repeating, Anne Wenzel, rassemble onze sculptures récentes, de différents formats, réalisées, comme à son habitude, en céramique. La technique, comme les sujets de ces travaux – de la statue en pied au buste allégorique, en passant par la nature morte – ne sont classiques quʼen apparence : sʼappropriant des modes de représentation fortement ancrés dans lʼhéritage dʼun art de commande, lʼartiste effectue une série de gestes déplaçant ces images du pouvoir dans un espace incertain, faisant vaciller les symboles officiels, les codes de la tradition dans un univers crépusculaire et mélancolique. La manière sombre dʼAnne Wenzel incarne un rapport à lʼhistoire hanté par la violence, et oppose à lʼéquilibre du monument la menace de la chute et du chaos, à la sérénité de la nature intemporelle les signes de son extinction, de sa décrépitude, au hiératisme du portrait idéalisé les signes du saccage et de la révolte.

 

For History Repeating, Anne Wenzel (1972, Germany, lives and works in Rotterdam) brings together eleven recent sculptures of different formats, made, as is her custom, of ceramics. The technique, like the themes of these works — from full-length statue to allegorical bust to still life — may appear classic, but what the artist does is embrace forms of representation that are deeply anchored in the legacy of commissioned art and carry out a series of actions that shift these images of power into a precarious space, causing official symbols and traditional codes to waver into a twilight, wistful realm. Anne Wenzel’s dark manner exemplifies an approach to history that is haunted by violence. It confronts monumental stability with the threat of downfall and chaos, the serenity of timeless nature with signs of its extinction and decay, the hieratic idealised portrait with signs of havoc and upheaval.

 

—Yann Chateigné

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Céramique / Ceramics 160 x 70 x 57 cm (63 x 27 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.)
Céramique / Ceramics 160 x 70 x 57 cm (63 x 27 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.)

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160 x 70 x 57 cm (63 x 27 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.)

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154 x 74 x 55 cm (60 5/8 x 29 1/8 x 21 5/8 in.)

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    151 x 120 x 107 cm (59 1/2 x 47 1/4 x 42 1/8 in.)
    40 x 80 x 80 cm (15 3/4 x 31 1/2 x 31 1/2 in.) Socle / Plinth

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    85 x 46 x 48 cm (33 1/2 x 18 1/8 x 18 7/8 in.)

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Under Construction (Blue Eyes Crying), 2018

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75 x 150 x 70 cm (29 1/2 x 59 x 27 1/2 in.) Socle / Plinth

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    80 x 32 x 71 cm (31 1/2 x 12 5/8 x 28 in.) Socle / Plinth

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    45 x 80 x 91 cm (17 3/4 x 31 1/2 x 35 7/8 in.)
    75 x 150 x 70 cm (29 1/2 x 59 x 27 1/2 in.) Socle / Plinth

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