Marie Cool Fabio Balducci
La mia mano come organo
1 December 2012–17 February 2013
49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine, Metz
www.fraclorraine.org
Come tavolo, come lago,
come vivo spazio
27 October 2012–17 February 2013
Contemporary Art Centre –
la synagogue de Delme
www.cac-synagoguedelme.org
A duo for two soli. Marie Cool and Fabio Balducci have accepted a joint invitation from 49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine and the Contemporary Art Centre – la synagogue de Delme. They will present complementary experiments that thwart the laws of physics.
The two exhibitions in Metz and Delme (drawings, installations, videos and actions) combine to form an echo chamber with an essential, existential approach, where continually repeated moments touch upon the ineffable.
The pieces created by Marie Cool and Fabio Balducci have a layout and spatial presence that give their appearance the semblance of “unstable sculptures with body.” The peculiarity of their propositions and barely installed installations have a genuinely powerful strangeness.
These artists are ultimately aiming to give rise to thought rather than to a result. They attempt to break up the conflict of the material and the metaphysical. Following no track or trail, Marie Cool and Fabio Balducci are offering nothing less a renewal of the art experience. Using humble materials, simple gestures, a subtle temporality, they are reviving a universal language that everyone can understand.
They display a sensitive, critical rigour that enables them to engage in a questioning of certain behaviours, postures and normative values—particularly temporality—that no longer seems able to exist in the ordinary context of institutional spaces.
All of their internal dialogues, visions, incisions and apostrophes speak of a passionate desire to dig into representation in order to help make it more open. All of their work predisposes one to that impetus which makes art the most effective means of bringing the invisible, inaudible world into existence.
In Marie Cool’s gestures, the hand becomes a life in itself, a multifaceted face, liable to caress or shatter. It is the site of an approaching rage, an evolving revolt, a human resistance to the dilution of a consumed, consumable world, governed by objects and all-powerful machines.
The insurrection that the gestures contain becomes its own politics of life, a constant injunction to stay awake, alive, to be there but always in a precarious balance, at the edge of a secret.
Marie Cool was born in Valenciennes in 1961 and Fabio Balducci was born in Ostra (Ancona, Italy) in 1964. They live and work between Paris and Pergola (Marche, Italy). The artists are represented by Marcelle Alix Gallery, Paris.
Access:
49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine
1bis rue des Trinitaires, F-57000 Metz
Admission free
Tuesday–Friday 2–7pm, Saturday and Sunday 11–7pm
Open during Christmas holidays (including December 25th and 26th and January 1st)
Group visits in English on request
mediation [at] fraclorraine.org
Complete schedule of events is available on our website: www.fraclorraine.org
The Frac Lorraine enjoys financial backing from the Lorraine Regional Council and the DRAC Lorraine at the Ministry of Culture and Communication.
Contemporary Art Centre – la synagogue de Delme
33 rue R. Poincaré, F-57590 Delme
Admission free
Wednesday–Saturday 2–6pm, Sunday 11–6pm
Closed from 17 december 2012 until 8 January 2013
More information: www.cac-synagoguedelme.org
La synagogue de Delme Centre for Contemporary Art is grateful for support from the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, the Lorraine contemporary art authority (DRAC), the regional and departmental governments of Lorraine and Moselle, and the municipality of Delme.
