Jan Kopp
Dossier mis à jour — 01/06/2024

La Parabole

La Parabole, 2008

Bandes de plâtre, polystyrène extrudé, 6 x 4 m

"La Parabole is a hybrid that emerges from the architectural form of an amphitheater, whose movement evokes the structure of a parabolic antenna. The form refers to two objects—one archaic and one contemporary—that are used for the transmission of information, whether visual or imaginary. In this manner, the work sets metaphor on the capture of information. With a sculpture that not is a sculpture but a cadaver (a structure that is more provisional than solid), the artist presents himself as a “bricoleur”, or handyman, and solicits the spectator to complete the empty structure as well as the temporal chain of disuse and dysfunction of an apparently unfinished object. Exhibition texte galerie angels barcelona, 2008La Parabole is a hybrid that emerges from the architectural form of an amphitheater, whose movement evokes the structure of a parabolic antenna. The form refers to two objects—one archaic and one contemporary—that are used for the transmission of information, whether visual or imaginary. In this manner, the work sets metaphor on the capture of information. With a sculpture that not is a sculpture but a cadaver (a structure that is more provisional than solid), the artist presents himself as a “bricoleur”, or handyman, and solicits the spectator to complete the empty structure as well as the temporal chain of disuse and dysfunction of an apparently unfinished object."

— extrait du texte de présentation de l'exposition, Galerie Angels Barcelona, 2008

Vue de l'exposition Crisis, Contra las aparencias, Galerie Angels Barcelona


Production : Galerie Angels Barcelona

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