{"id":95607,"date":"2021-04-27T14:28:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T12:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.centredelagravure.be\/?post_type=extra&p=95607"},"modified":"2021-04-27T14:28:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T12:28:55","slug":"b2","status":"publish","type":"extra","link":"https:\/\/www.centredelagravure.be\/en\/extra\/b2\/","title":{"rendered":"Xavier Antin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

L\u2019\u0153uvre de Xavier Antin, plasticien et graphiste de formation, est tout enti\u00e8re travers\u00e9e par un questionnement dialectique sur les rapports \u00e0 la fois utilitaires, compl\u00e9mentaires et comp\u00e9titifs entre l\u2019homme et les technologies qu\u2019il cr\u00e9e.

L\u2019\u0153uvre que nous pr\u00e9sentons ici Perfect Shapes Collapse <\/em>est une \u0153uvre auto-nominative qui r\u00e9sulte d\u2019une commande et d\u2019\u00e9changes conceptuels entre Xavier Antin et un collectionneur belge. Elle est constitu\u00e9e de vis en bronze, chacune coul\u00e9e au d\u00e9part d\u2019impressions 3D, dont les t\u00eates sont individuellement grav\u00e9es de lettres. Assembl\u00e9es, elles peuvent le cas \u00e9ch\u00e9ant, \u00e0 l\u2019instar du cas pr\u00e9sent, former une phrase signifiante et v\u00e9hiculer un message<\/span> et\/ou, au contraire, servir simplement de support fonctionnel \u00e0 d\u2019autres \u0153uvres, de l\u2019artiste (en particulier, de fa\u00e7on involutive des plaques de pl\u00e2tre finement imprim\u00e9es en 3D portant alors le nom des vis qui les supportent) ou d\u2019autres artistes pr\u00e9sents dans l\u2019exposition o\u00f9 elles sont activ\u00e9es. Ces \u0153uvres sont paradoxales \u00e0 plus d\u2019un titre, dans le d\u00e9calage existant entre l\u2019impression 3D de leur moule, \u00e9conomique et de mat\u00e9riau pauvre, et leur r\u00e9alisation\/finition pr\u00e9cieuse et traditionnelle, labor intensive<\/em>. Ces vis n\u00e9cessitent en outre pour \u00eatre install\u00e9es des t\u00eates de tournevis sp\u00e9cifiques,<\/span> sp\u00e9cialement con\u00e7ues pour leur lettre\/vis destinataire et \u00e9galement pr\u00e9sent\u00e9es ici. L\u2019installation Perfect Shapes Collapse<\/em> a fait l\u2019objet chez le collectionneur d\u2019une installation tout \u00e0 fait sp\u00e9cifique. Il a en effet construit une annexe \u00e0 son habitation sp\u00e9cialement con\u00e7ue pour le display changeant de pi\u00e8ces de sa collection (travers\u00e9e par les notions dialectiques de construction et destruction). Cette annexe est litt\u00e9ralement travers\u00e9e de fa\u00e7on longitudinale par une fissure dans laquelle se logent les vis de Xavier Antin, activant ici une forme m\u00e9taphorique directe de leur message. En l\u2019occurrence, pour Bye Bye His-Story<\/em>, nous proposons une forme r\u00e9actualis\u00e9e, \u00e9clat\u00e9e de l\u2019installation dans la disposition d\u2019ensemble de laquelle se dessine une forme graphique \u00e9voquant un diagramme de d\u00e9croissance et voire d\u2019effondrement \u00e9conomique. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

English<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The work of Xavier Antin, a visual artist and graphic designer by training, is thoroughly informed by a dialectical questioning of the simultaneously utilitarian, complementary and competitive relationships between man and the technologies he creates. There is implicitly also a critical analysis of the social conflicts that these evolving production relations generate.

The work we are presenting here, Perfect Shapes Collapse<\/em> is a self-titled work resulting from a commission and conceptual exchanges between Xavier Antin and a Belgian collector. It is made up of bronze screws, each cast from 3D prints, the heads of which are individually engraved with letters.<\/span> When assembled, they can potentially, as here, form a meaningful phrase and convey a message and\/or, conversely, simply serve as a functional support for other works, either by the artist himself (in particular, as internal elements, for slabs of plaster delicately printed in 3D named for the screws that support them) or by other artists in the exhibition where they are used. These works are paradoxical in more ways than one, e.g. in the discrepancy between the 3D printing of their mould, which is economical and in low-quality material, and their precious and traditional production\/finishing, which is labour intensive.<\/em><\/span> These screws also need to be installed by using specific screwdrivers, specially designed for their respective letter\/screw, which are also in display.\u00a0The Perfect Shapes Collapse<\/em> installation was the subject of a highly specific installation for the collector, who in fact built an annex to his home specially designed for the changing display of pieces from his collection (inherently reflecting the dialectical notions of construction and destruction). This annex is literally traversed longitudinally by a crack in which Xavier Antin’s screws are lodged, thus presenting their message in direct metaphorical form. In this case, for Bye Bye His-Story<\/em>, we offer an updated, exploded version of the installation: in the overall arrangement we have chosen for the screws a graph-like form emerges, evoking a diagram of economic decline and even collapse.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-95607","extra","type-extra","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centredelagravure.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/extra\/95607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centredelagravure.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/extra"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centredelagravure.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/extra"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centredelagravure.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}