Pierre Leguillon /// La grande évasion /// Musée de la Danse, Renne

La photographie fixe le temps, arrête le mouvement. Mais depuis son origine, la captation du passage constitue l'horizon impossible de sa recherche. Quel est le sens d'une image arrêtée de danse ? Qu'est-ce qui l'anime ? Avec cette exposition, trois artistes proposent leurs musées imaginaires de la danse : trois stratégies photographiques pour rendre compte de gestes, d'idées, de processus ou de désirs renvoyant à l'imaginaire chorégraphique.
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Cindy Sherman /// nouveau mural photographique au Moma

As in all her work, Sherman is both model and photographer, but in the mural, instead of using makeup or prosthetics to alter her appearance, she transformed her face via digital means. She exaggerated her features using Photoshop, elongating her nose, narrowing her eyes, or creating smaller lips. The statuesque characters sport an odd mix of costumes and are taken from everyday life—they are eccentrics that Sherman has elevated to larger-than-life status. Set against a decorative toile backdrop, her characters seem like protagonists from their own carnivalesque worlds, where fantasy and reality merge.

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Sara Van Der Beek /// D'amelio Terras Gallery NY

The photographs for which VanDerBeek first became known were, like the piece exhibited at MoMA, created in the studio with techniques borrowed from sculpture and collage. Most feature a single, somewhat rickety construction, laden with both photographic reproductions and talismanic objects—feathers, necklaces and chains, ribbons, and the like. The pictures are themselves invocations, calling forth the spirits of modernist precursors, from Constantin Brancusi and Alexander Calder to László Moholy-Nagy and Max Ernst; of classical cultures and historical figures; and of the artist’s father, the experimental filmmaker and artist Stan VanDerBeek, for whom the canny juxtaposition of images was second nature. 

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Illustrations:   1_Sara VanDerBeek, From the Means of Reproduction 2007, 101.6 cm x 76.2, digital c-print ///  2_Sara VanDerBeek, Eclipse 1 2008, 50.8 x 40.6 cm, digital c-print