Gold fog – Liberation
Seeing Flou is a symptom, that of illness or aging. Optical disorder, the vagueness is therefore a blind point, a sort of disturbing fog that threatens not only the gaze but also affects representations, paintings, videos and especially photographs – blurred sculptures are more rare … This is what shows « in blur. » Another vision of art from 1945 to the present day ”, an exhibition all in finesse and gravity, at the Musée de l’Orangerie. « Diving into this subject was ultra-exciting and a little dizzying, reports Emilia Philippot, co-commissioner. It was complicated, even the chronological limits were not at all laid at all. ”
Do you tackle a rich but floating notion-do we not speak, in a pejorative way, of artistic vagueness? – Finally comes down to the museum director, Claire Bernardi: « Is there an aesthetic of the blur? » And is it Monet is the precursor? What prompted contemporary artists to go to blur? ” While cameras, satellites, scanners and optical instruments fill the failures of the human eye and offer an ever clearer and precise vision of the world – today reinforced by the calculations of the AI -, the vagueness persists and signs in art. For what ?
The exhibition has its source in a misty river by William Turner (1845), in a plexiglass cube filled with Hans Haacke (Cube condensation1963-1965) and in
