Intérieurs sur mesure
Martine Bedin, Katinka Bock, Ludovic Chemarin©, Guillaume Leblon, P. Nicolas Ledoux, Enzo Mari, Alessandro Mendini, Masaki Morita, Groupe Nemo, Jean Nouvel, Jean-Michel Othoniel, David Renggli, Stefan Rinck, Ettore Sottsass, Philippe Starck, Martin Szekely, Lawrence Weiner
February 8th
︎︎︎ March 9th, 2019
The idea of the exhibition « Intérieurs sur mesure » (Custom made interiors) comes from a sidewalk and neighbourhood discussion:
For many years, if not forever, Alberta Pane has been
wondering where and how creation is born? In which
environment? After which readings? Around which
objects? In the void or in its contrary? In the silence? In
noise, in light, or just before falling asleep at night?
For several years, or even since always, Didier Jean
Anicet Courbot wonders where and how creation is
born? In which places? Sitting? Or moving? In a train or
in a salon? In a personal and intimate place or in a public
place? When waking up or in the middle of a restless
night or during insomnia?
One day, by chance, Alberta and Didier met and talked to
each other. Finally, the questions were not so far from each
other. When one wonders about book sources, the other
questions places.
One could broadly wonder about the genesis of creations.
The exhibition "Machines à penser" at the Prada
Foundation in Venice this summer analyzed, for example,
the relationship between the condition of forced or
desired isolation and the physical or mental places that
favour reflection, thought and intellectual production. For
Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Wittgenstein the need to
create places of intellectual isolation, isolated inner spaces
of the world, in unlikely places, gave birth to immense
philosophical thoughts. For Adorno, forced isolation and
immigration were powerful mental conditions that greatly influenced him. Isolation then. In places sheltered from
the world like a cabin in a fjord.
Could inner or outside places, where reading, thinking,
creating and finding oneself, also be born from sharing?
For « Intérieurs sur mesure », Alberta Pane and A1043
galleries (we are neighbours after all!) have invited a
group of artists to present a work associated with the
book of their choice. Starting from this question about
the origin of creations we want to create not a place but
several places or intermediate spaces. Being one an art
gallery and the other a design gallery we wish during this
common experience to evoke a library space, a reading
room and a place to share with others. A1043 and Alberta
Pane galleries become Heidegger's hut in the middle of
the Black Forest…
