Le 24Beaubourg is happy to give carte blanche to Jean-Marie Oger.
Still life presents a set of works around the idea of still life. In a society of overconsumption where each object must be a carrier of well-being, this secular genre recalls the transitory state of nature and the futility of the techniques developed to bypass their expiration, like fruit compositions. by Monique de Roux or foods from the future of Angélique. By semantic extension, still life can refer to an environment devastated by a disaster. This idea underlies the works of the Dutch artist Demiak, exhibited for the first time in Paris. His landscapes empty of any human presence and his sculptures of houses devastated by natural disasters belong to the sub-genre of vanity, no longer attached to some inanimate object but to the planet in its entirety.
Style of life echoes the notion developed by Alfred Adler (1870-1937), defined as a mechanism of rules and conduct developed by an individual to face the outside world. The lifestyle reflects the values, attitudes and worldviews of an individual. Through the prism of painters, this translates into an exposure of obsessions and attempts to respond to the disorder of contemporary life: Michael Bastow and the contemplation of the female body, Sergio Ceccotti and metropolitan anguish, Pierre Lamalattie and the alienation of the individual through work, Ray Richardson and the cinematographic reconstruction of the self, Francine Van Hove and the delight in enjoying the unproductive moments of existence.
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