Micro-Narratives, the Temptation of small realities
30 embroidered cardboard houses
galerie Anita Beckers, Francfort
- from: 01.06.2008
- to: 21.09.2008
- In: Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne (Saint-Etienne Museum of Modern Art)
Micro-Narratives, the Temptation of small realities
The exhibition groups 85 contemporary artists from different generations, coming from 25 countries, all of them sensitive to proximity, the simplicity of what is obvious, and poetry of the world
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From 7 May to 21 September 2008
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Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne (Saint-Etienne Museum of Modern Art)
The exposition called "Micro-Narratives, Tentation des petites réalités" (Micro-Narratives, the Temptation of small realities) presents 85 contemporary artists of different generations, coming from various territories (25 countries represented), all of them sensitive to the proximity, the simplicity of what is obvious and the poetry of the world. This show, whose general manager is Lorand Hegyi, director-general of the Museum of Modern Art, was presented in a somewhat different version at the 48th Salon d'Octobre de Belgrade (Belgrad October Show) (Serbia) in 2007.
The artists on display base themselves more on proposals and doubt than on affirmation. The techniques used - drawings, assemblies, photographs, videos, installations - promote attention to our closest environment: the framework of our lives, and the one of our thoughts. The theme of "micro-narratives" is a neologism developed from the theories of Jean-François Lyotard, who described post-modernism as the time of the end of the "Great Stories".
Post-modernism questions the major political or artistic theories, to the benefit of a constellation of "small stories" rich in nuances, which evoke a world that is closer to our "small realities", and is also more complex and more subtle.
Attention paid to the setting of our lives (landscapes, street scenes or political framework), emphasis on daily reality, interest in a universal form of introspection, the temptation to extrapolate on the basis of small realities to give full rein to a poetic imagination… all this is at the heart of the work done by the artists on display!
- Updated: 03.09.2008
