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The exhibition features a moving display case studded with fragments of porcelain collected by Jean-François D'Or from all four corners of the world. Lit from above, they cast their shadows on a white background, thus giving rise to a delicate island geography. Minimalist, this proposal is no less moving in its character of traces, these shards of reality that speak of the presence of absence.
Michel Verlinden.
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Installation / Jean-François D'Or.
Collect of ceramic fragments from different journeys, 1992-2017.
EXHIBITIONS /
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Pictures © Julien Renault © Alexandra de Behault.
1. Barcelona, 31/07/2001.
2. Bellagio, 23/08/2005.
3. Spa, 17/09/1997.
4. Furnes, 01/04/1992.
5. New York, 19/02/1999.
6. Nancy, 06/05/2006.
7. Cassis, 15/08/2010.
8. Tokyo, 17/05/2016.
9. Vercorin, 01/03/2017.
10. Joyeuse, 13/08/2017.
11. Butte Montmartre, 31/05/1996.
12. Jakarta, 28/04/2005.
13. Luca, 08/08/2004.
14. Mexico, 24/03/2007.
15. Nice, 02/06/2003.
16. Santorin, 04/07/2006.
17. Nantes, 11/11/2011.
18. Montréal, 04/07/2012.
19. Sintra, 20/08/2015.
20. Liège, 31/12/1999.
21. Ostende, 29/06/2008.
22. Lèves, 24/06/2006.
23. Amsterdam, 01/01/2012.
24. Porto, 18/08/2015.
25. Athènes, 02/07/2006.
26. Pointe du Groin, 06/05/2005.
27. Budapest, 13/02/2017.
28. La Garde-Adhemar, 23/08/2017.
29. Cophenhagen, 28/10/2007.
30. Berlin, 31/07/2003.
31. Ajaccio, 08/08/2016.
32. Bois de La Cambre, 04/05/1995.
33. Bari, 21/08/2013.
34. Vieste, 17/08/2013.
35. Brooklyn, 10/02/1999.
36. Honfleur, 07/11/1994.
37. Rotterdam, 19/11/2016.
38. Stockholm, 30/01/2010.
39. Milan, 12/04/2000.
40. Bangkok, 13/05/2005.
41. Uccles, 25/12/2007.
42. Dublin, 04/07/2017.
43. Cap blanc nez, 07/07/2015.
44. Schaerbeek, 06/04/2008.
45. Bruxelles, 24/02/2003.
Fragments /
Collect of ceramic fragments from different journeys, 1992-2017.
EN
In the era of artist curators who calligraph exhibitions, it is always with a shiver down the spine that we discover a display imagined by a visual artist. Fortunately, Jean-François D'Or is not quite one, he who rolls his hump as a designer. This proximity to the applied arts is enough to introduce the little distance necessary for FRArGILE not to be understood in the manner of yet another ego-tripped variation crossing contemporary art. D'Or took care to fade behind his proposal. Based on an increasingly sharp rapprochement between earth, an essential material declined in different forms, and fragility, the potential state of this material, the exhibition delights the eye and the mind.
L'exposition accueille une émouvante vitrine constellée de débris de porcelaine glanés par Jean-François D'Or aux quatre coins du monde. Éclairés par le haut, ils projettent leur ombre sur un fond blanc, donnant ainsi naissance à une délicate géographie insulaire. Minimaliste, cette proposition n'en est pas moins bouleversante en son caractère de traces, ces éclats de réalité qui disent la présence de l'absence.
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The Capital and the Wall by Jorge Méndez Blake hits the visitor as soon as he enters. A brick tower with one of the legs replaced by a book, Das Kapital by Karl Marx. With its massive presence, the work invites questioning. Not all the works included are as direct. There are many poetic evocations. This is the case of Dominique A whose words appear on the wall. Les Terres brunes speak of mud, this earth that sticks to the feet, this rooting that one can never get rid of. In the same spirit, a diaphanous print by Laetitia Bica. The photographer shows one of her portraits covered in earth and color. Other pieces deserve to be lingered over: Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Andrea Branzi, Bernard Gigounon, Francis Alÿs, Pierre Charpin, Roeland Tweelinckx, Benedetto Bufalino, etc.
The exhibition features a moving display case studded with fragments of porcelain collected by Jean-François D'Or from all four corners of the world. Lit from above, they cast their shadows on a white background, thus giving rise to a delicate island geography. Minimalist, this proposal is no less moving in its character of traces, these shards of reality that speak of the presence of absence.
Michel Verlinden.
EXHIBITIONS /
CATALOG /
PRICE /
Pictures © Julien Renault © Alexandra de Behault.