{"id":697,"date":"2024-04-05T20:00:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redeckeria.org\/newblog\/?p=697"},"modified":"2024-04-22T20:02:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T20:02:00","slug":"attention-au-feu-by-benjamin-grivot-at-interface-dijon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeckeria.org\/newblog\/2024\/04\/05\/attention-au-feu-by-benjamin-grivot-at-interface-dijon\/","title":{"rendered":"“Attention au feu” by Benjamin Grivot at INTERFACE, Dijon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Impossible from the invitation photo to guess what the pink luminant round object is made from and how big it is. To learn more, I resort to the gallery which is in an apartment in an old residential building on Rue Chancelier de l\u00b4Hospital. At first, I miss the gallery entrance door and climb the stairs to the third floor.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Unexpectedly, this offers the premium view of one of the sculptures which is placed in a small interior patio. It is a small fragment of facade decoration crowned by a fuzzy tuft, mounted on a long pole. Later, I will get to know that its title is \u201eLightning rod\u201c and I understand that this is the typical approach by Benjamin Grivot<\/a> to ironically turn the objects against themselves: the result of a lightning impact as a device to protect against exactly that. Will the lightning be deterred by the fact that it has already been there?<\/p>\n\n\n

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Inside the exhibition the hostess patiently explains the thinking behind the artworks. The round pink object turns out to be a resin cast of a tractor tire of considerable dimensions, illuminated by pink lighting on the inside. It is entitled \u201cThe origin of the world\u201d as the famous Courbet painting. A rasterized painting of an anal plug is on the opposite wall of the pink object on a board exactly the same size as the inside of the tire cast (as underlined by the guide), and leaves open all kinds of associations.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Overall, resin casts from an agricultural environment are one of the dominant themes of this exhibition, highlighting the artist\u00b4s origin from and continuing attachment to the countryside. A corroded farmyard bucket is present as a resin replica, filled with water and decaying leaves. The resin casts present a sensualized exploration of the object surfaces (or the traces they left). Some of them are spread out on the floor and usually adorned by the trademark furry glass fibers. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Another striking example of the artist\u00b4s subversive reinterpretation strategy is a resin cast of a fire hazard warning sign (“Attention au feu”), while exactly the casting process can lead to overheating and ignition when too much polymerization starter is added, a risk this object gleefully plays with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition was open from February 10 to April 6, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Impossible from the invitation photo to guess what the pink luminant round object is made from and how big it is. To learn more, I resort to the gallery which is in an apartment in an old residential building on Rue Chancelier de l\u00b4Hospital. At first, I miss the gallery entrance door and climb the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-visited-exhibitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redeckeria.org\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redeckeria.org\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redeckeria.org\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redeckeria.org\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redeckeria.org\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/redeckeria.org\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709,"href":"https:\/\/redeckeria.org\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redeckeria.org\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redeckeria.org\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redeckeria.org\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}