Cyprien Gaillard, Belief in the Age of DisbeliefLes deux chemins au ruisseau / étape VIII, 2005
Etching (14.57 x 16.93 inches framed), 7.09 x 7.87 inches
Belief in the Age of Disbelief (Paysage aux trois tours), 2005, 6.69 x 9.06 inches.
This article in Frieze titled The Haunting is written by Jennifer Higgie.
It discusses Death within art and what the legacy of this is. Artworks / texts to be reviewed and provide clue's towards a new practice, some of my notes:
History - Ignore at your peril, yet do not bask within it's authority as it is very slippery.
Reviewing / looking at artworks of the past help the development of ones own practice and release a conversation that is being held.
Cyprien Gaillard is named to review in connection. The image above relates to the text below as found on the website: www.bugadacargnel.com
Cyprien Gaillard
Belief in the Age of Disbelief (Paysage aux trois tours)
In 'Belief in the Age of Disbelief', GAILLARD has introduced tower blocks into 17th Century Dutch landscape etchings. These post-war structures, once a symbol of utopian promise that have now come to represent racial conflict, urban decay, criminality and violence, have been seamlessly assimilated into a rural idyll. Some tower blocks have been positioned in the composition like a defiant medieval fortress, others as apocalyptic ruins. Like the paintings of Hubert ROBERT, admired by DIDEROT, who depicted ancient ruins and even the imaginary future ruins of the Louvre (1796), GAILLARD comments on the relationship between romanticism and decay, and architectures' inherent communicative power.
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