{"id":95708,"date":"2021-04-28T10:24:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T08:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.centredelagravure.be\/?post_type=extra&p=95708"},"modified":"2021-04-28T10:24:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T08:24:32","slug":"b60","status":"publish","type":"extra","link":"https:\/\/www.centredelagravure.be\/en\/extra\/b60\/","title":{"rendered":"Lois Weinberger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Depuis le d\u00e9but des ann\u00e9es 70, Lois Weinberger, qui se consid\u00e9rait litt\u00e9ralement comme un homme de terrain, entreprend un travail po\u00e9tique et politique interrogeant notre environnement direct, qu\u2019il soit naturel ou refa\u00e7onn\u00e9 par l\u2019homme.<\/span> Ardent d\u00e9fenseur de la libert\u00e9 et de la spontan\u00e9it\u00e9 de l\u2019\u00e9l\u00e9ment naturel, l\u2019artiste met en lumi\u00e8re les zones o\u00f9 la nature arrive \u00e0 s\u2019exprimer de fa\u00e7on f\u00fbt\u2011ce marginale, en questionnant par l\u00e0 m\u00eame la hi\u00e9rarchie implicite qui sous\u2011tend notre ordre social. Il s\u2019int\u00e9resse en particulier aux plantes rud\u00e9rales,<\/span> ces mauvaises herbes qui deviennent l\u2019une des principales sources d\u2019inspiration de son travail. Elles se d\u00e9ploient dans une multitude de notes, dessins, photographies, objets, textes, films et d\u2019importantes installations dans l\u2019espace public. Parmi celles\u2011ci, Wild Cube<\/em> (1991\u201192); une cage en acier qui emprisonne une v\u00e9g\u00e9tation spontan\u00e9e qui cro\u00eet sans intervention humaine, est une magistrale illustration de la puissance symbolique d\u2019une nature lib\u00e9r\u00e9e de l\u2019homme, non sans une r\u00e9f\u00e9rence implicite et grin\u00e7ante au topos du White<\/em> Cube<\/em>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, Lois Weinberger d\u00e9veloppe tout un travail de d\u00e9racinement et de migrations crois\u00e9es d\u2019esp\u00e8ces de plantes issues de contextes urbains et ruraux. C\u2019est ainsi que pour Dokumenta X<\/em>, il planta des plantes n\u00e9ophytes issues du Sud\u2011Est de l\u2019Europe sur 100 m\u00e8tres de voie ferr\u00e9e, en guise de m\u00e9taphore, \u00e0 la fois \u00e9minemment politique et po\u00e9tique, des processus migratoires qui bousculent nos soci\u00e9t\u00e9s. Sa contribution sera acclam\u00e9e par la critique internationale.

Green Man (2004) est un autoportrait o\u00f9 il se repr\u00e9sente le visage badigeonn\u00e9 de pigment vert et la narine comme transperc\u00e9e d\u2019un piercing de p\u00e9tale de rose. Reprenant les topo\u00ef<\/em> et arch\u00e9types des d\u00e9it\u00e9s antiques li\u00e9es \u00e0 la v\u00e9g\u00e9tation comme des repr\u00e9sentations rousseauistes du Bon Sauvage<\/em>,<\/span> la composition r\u00e9sonne comme une invitation pressante \u00e0 retrouver un rapport et une \u00e9coute directs et simples \u00e0 la nature comme solutions possibles aux impasses vers lesquels nos soci\u00e9t\u00e9s se dirigent. Garden (1997) fonctionne comme un protocole m\u00e9taphorique o\u00f9 une plante rud\u00e9rale pousse au fur et \u00e0 mesure de l\u2019exposition dans un bac de pvc en se nourrissant de l\u2019eau qui imbibe et d\u00e9compose une liasse ficel\u00e9e de journaux de la presse quotidienne du pays et de la r\u00e9gion du lieu d\u2019exposition activant la pi\u00e8ce. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since the early 1970s, Lois Weinberger, who literally considered himself a man of the field, undertook a poetic and political project questioning our direct environment, whether natural or reshaped by man.<\/span> An ardent defender of the freedom and spontaneity of the natural element, the artist highlights the areas where nature manages to express itself in a marginal way, thereby questioning the implicit hierarchy that underlies our social order. He is particularly interested in ruderal plants, <\/span>those weeds, growing where the natural vegetational cover has been disturbed by humans, that become one of the main sources of inspiration for his work. They unfold in a multitude of notes, drawings, photographs, objects, texts, films and large-scale installations in public space. Among these, Wild Cube<\/em> (1991-92); a steel cage that traps spontaneous vegetation that grows without human intervention, is a masterful illustration of the symbolic power of a nature liberated from man, not without an implicit and bitterly ironic reference to the topos of the White Cube.<\/em> At the same time, Lois Weinberger developed a whole work of uprooting and cross-migrating plant species from urban and rural contexts. This is how, for Dokumenta X<\/em>, he planted neophyte plants from South-East Europe on 100 meters of railway line, as a metaphor, both eminently political and poetic, of the migratory processes that are shaking up our societies. His contribution was acclaimed by international critics.

Green Man <\/em>(2004) is a self-portrait in which he represents his face covered with green pigment and his nostril pierced with a rose petal piercing. Adopting the topoi<\/em> and archetypes of the Antique Green deities or of Rousseauist representations of Bon Sauvage<\/em>, the composition resonates as an urgent invitation to rediscover a direct and simple relationship and listening to nature<\/span> as possible solutions to the dead ends towards which our societies are heading. Garden<\/em> (1997) functions as a metaphorical protocol where a ruderal plant grows as it is exposed in a PVC tube, feeding on the water that soaks and disintegrates a tied bundle of newspapers from the local daily press.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-95708","extra","type-extra","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centredelagravure.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/extra\/95708","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=95708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}