Bombshell
Bombshell
Bombshell
Bombshell

Marie Gyger

Bombshell, 2023Price on Request
Details
Material
black kraft paper
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.

The image depicts a minimalist, abstract sculpture composed of sleek, dark gray geometric shapes. The overall composition features a series of angular, overlapping planes that create a sense of depth and visual interest. The smooth, polished surfaces and sharp edges suggest a focus on materiality and precise craftsmanship. The subject matter is non-representational, emphasizing form, volume, and the interplay of light and shadow. This work likely reflects the artist's exploration of modernist aesthetic principles, using simple, geometric forms to create a striking, visually arresting piece. ...

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Marie Gyger
Artist
Marie Gyger

Gyger’s peculiar economy of means and the poor materiality of the work address the frequently absurd overproduction in contemporary art to which she reacts as an artist by developing her light and recyclable paper-folding technique. Several of the works on view were made last summer in her former Paris studio, have since been recycled, and now re-created for the current exhibition. This is an intentional rupture with logistical burdens, ownership, paper trails, and all the questions behind them. Gyger’s works are handmade, but not in the sense of craft with an emphasis on the “artist’s hand”. As if in a small factory, she works “by hand”, but in a standardized manner. Just as paper is an affordable and recyclable material, folding (Origami) is a modest technique that exists autonomously. The procedure is based on basic Euclidean geometric rules that allow to reflect upon the world in a very small scale as in a child’s game. Each form that Marie Gyger folds is measured against the paper from which it emerges and within the space that is allotted to it. Like cells halve themselves to multiply, the repetition starts with the double, one becomes two and increases by implements. The motif of the double folds itself into the work by the recurrent use of the diptych and the way she plays with double entendre. It is precisely from the two-dimensional space of the sheet of paper that Gyger creates forms in three dimensions. These worlds become mental spaces populated by haunting motifs, articulated in their multiple physical and psychological dimensions. Her compositions evoke Clarice Lispector’s descriptions of quiet, luminous domestic spaces which subtly invoke traumatic imprints. The bottles and the glasses which twirl around playfully testify to sharing, to the party but also to alcoholism, excess, and social exuberance which leads to drama; the hands symbolize social relations, friendship, but also business deals, trafficking and dirty hands (avoir les mains sales); The folded shirts evoke care, a tidy home, but also the work environment and its homogenized uniforms that refer to Kafkian visions as much as to the cells of Peter Halley. Repetition is a versatile literary and artistic device: to repeat is both meditative and nerve-racking; reduction as much as excess; a technique for learning as much as it exhausts meaning; and repetition is reassuring when it is a routine but it becomes terrifying when it is submerging. Gyger uses the apparent innocence of signs to exploit their ambivalence and reveal their underlying tragedy ...

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