Le Sentiment des Choses
Le Sentiment des Choses/ The Feeling of Things
Le Plateau
Place Hannah Arendt
75019, Paris
15 Dec 2011 - 26 Feb 2012
www.fracidf-leplateau.com
Lenka Clayton and Michael Crowe, Isabelle Cornaro, Julien Crépieux,
Robert Filliou, Martino Gamper, Ryan Gander, Mark Geffriaud, Ray Johnson,
Chitti Kasemkitvatana, Bruno Munari, The Play, Bruno Persat,
Pratchaya Phinthong, Chloé Quenum, Clément Rodzielski, Fred Sandback,
Mieko Shiomi.
Curated by Elodie Royer and Yoann Gourmel
As the first part of a series of exhibitions devised by Elodie Royer and Yoann Gourmel,
guest curators for the 2011-2012 season, the group show The Feeling of Things takes
as its point of departure the work and spirit of the inventor, artist, designer, writer,
illustrator, graphic designer and teacher, Bruno Munari, “a Peter Pan with the calibre of
a Leonardo”, to borrow Pierre Restany’s words.
By shifting and developing, in everyday life, his continuous research into the circulation
and instability of forms, signs, colors, light, words, and images, he was never ceased to
imagination and method, and logical and intuitive inventiveness, within an approach that
focused on the essentialness of things. From the early Futurist paintings of the 1930s to
his unreadable books, from his useless machines to his talking forks, from his original
xerographies to the high-tension structures of the 1990s, Munari played all his life with
categories and disciplines – using conspicuously limited means – in an attempt to blend them
into a single radical and generous art praxis, urging everyone to develop their own curiosity
and creativity.
taken from the press release
Photo: Martin Argyroglo
