![]() ![]() Quite the contrary, in a latent suggestion, an almost ghostlike presence, WILFRID ALMENDRA composes a fluid, intuitive atmosphere, made up of plants and materials doomed to invisibility, destruction and oblivion. The point is not to compare a disadvantaged aesthetic with noble architecture. ![]() It evokes the communal space of an allotment, crystallising the artist's interest in pavilion and peri-urban architecture. WILFRID ALMENDRA presents a mural sculpture made of glass and plants. The artist carries out material alterations on stones found in nature on their mineral surface, he creates a vegetal microcosm: the represented cannabis plants suggest a calmed inner world in which a dreamlike mood mixes with intensified emotions and aesthetic transcendence. However, they do not mean the renunciation of utopia: for the artist the transition to two dimensions is a way of making a clean slate of the past, and these geodesic domes become a backdrop enabling us to imagine new contemporary utopias.ĪDRIEN MISSIKA's rocks, to which he applies a motif by transfer, convey ideas of sedimentation and surging. JULIAN CHARRIÈRE's sculpture carries two melancholies within it, that of the failure of the "American way of life" symbolised by the car hoods, and that of the impossibility of going back to the counterculture of Drop City. The artist reconstructed an identical geodesic dome, before undertaking the radical gesture of flattening it with an excavator. Its inhabitants lived in geodesic domes, many made of recycled and assembled car hoods. Precursory in the areas of solar energy and communication, particularly with its reflection on a network foreshadowing the Internet, Drop City inspired many of the artists' communities that followed. JULIAN CHARRIÈRE's sculpture, a mass of metal and glass, is inspired by the houses in Drop City, a utopian, pro-technological artists' community of the 1960s in the United States. The exhibition marks Galerie Bugada & Cargnel's tenth anniversary, through one of its key activities, promoting the young French scene, and it will be presenting the work of six of the artists it represents: Wilfrid ALMENDRA, JULIAN CHARRIÈRE, NICK DEVEREUX, CYPRIEN GAILLARD, ADRIEN MISSIKA and Claire TABOURET. Testifying to the movement's favourite themes-mood landscapes, introspection and the experience of the sublime-it has influenced the thinking of many artists up to the contemporary era. The exhibition Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog takes its title from Caspar David Friedrich's major work of Romanticism. Wilfrid Almendra, Julian Charrière, Nick Devereux, Cyprien Gaillard, Adrien Missika, Claire Tabouret > ![]()
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