Palais de Tokyo

Meltem

20 Mar - 15 Apr 2013

© Jérémy Gobé
Résident, 2012
Courtesy de l’artiste.
MELTEM
With The Ecole Nationale Supérieure Des Arts Décoratifs
20 March - 15 April 2013

With : Jean-Baptiste Caron, Fanny Châlot, Charlotte Charbonnel, Olivier Chiron, Jérémy Gobé, Stéphanie Lagarde, Julie Said, Giuliana Zefferi.

The Meltem wind, after turning Ulysses away from his native island, led him to some of his most compelling and enriching experiences. The Meltem—the activity generated by the shock between high and low pressures, a power leading to unexpected horizons—brings about unexpected encounters and metamorphoses of reality.

A generation of artists arises and the exhibition space is altered as a result. The artists provide their apparitions, their assemblages and their transformations. The works on display constitute a topsy-turvy but wonderfully disparate universe. These young artists are all graduates of the Art-Space section of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. There, they developed a knowledge and culture specific to each different field of contemporary creation. Today, they exercise their capacity for metamorphosis through various expressive means, requiring very diverse techniques.