The stars, their trajectories and their light are called to the capital by the work of artists Felice d’Estienne d’Orve and Gabriel Sobin. Through Space Dialogue, their works question our relationship with time and space in a powerful and subtle way.
Man works on light, time, stars and their trajectories. Another carves alabaster and onyx in mass and waves. On the one hand, lively and minimalist installations, on the other hand, impressive and elegant sculptures. And yet, the affinity between these two very different artists, Felice d’Estienne d’Orvay and Gabriel Sobin, seems obvious. They are gathered for a “cosmic dialogue” in an exhibition called “In the folds of time” at the Marais in Paris (1). The event aims to explore “different time scales and our relationship with the universe,” explains its curator Sean Rose.
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Between earth and sky
Here are summoned stars, planets and other meteors that intersect with us in dizzying dialogue. Because the two artists base their work on “heavenly bodies, their manifestation in space, their falls on our planet.” Imbued with Zen culture, Franco-American Gabriel Sobin creates stone sculptures that allow light to penetrate, with an effect of mass and imperceptible contrast; wave, which reproduces the natural movement of sound or liquid waves, with a beating heart of alabaster. Félicie d’Estienne d’Orves is fueled by astrophysics research in multiple installations, in direct and constant contact with the stars. So this mars sun whose illumination translates into luminous intensity the position of the Sun on the Martian horizon in real time, or these magnificent stucco reliefs of the topography of Endeavor Crater. Works that capture distant signals sent from space.
Initiated by this encounter, both earthly and spatial, we find art agent Beatrice Massey, founder of the nomadic project The Spaceless Gallery. This young Franco-Australian has landed exclusively in a gallery on rue Saint-Claude in Paris, but is developing the concept of decentralized exhibitions in new locations in France and abroad: houses, villas, boats, florists, workshops… Project Image of the art market today, he explains: “Globalized, mobile and flexible”.
(1) In the Wrinkles of Time, an exhibition by Felice d’Estienne d’Orvay and Gabriel Sobin, The Spaceless Gallery, until November 4, 7 rue Saint-Claude, 75003 Paris.
Source: Le Figaro
