2024-01-01 06:01:00
Is winter getting in the way of your morale? So warm up in Meudon! On the edge of the forest, Hangar Y, a site formerly dedicated to airships and resurrected last year as an art center, acts on the public like a vitamin D cure, with the exhibition “Taking the Sun”, invested by around forty artists, French, American, English… They come from all backgrounds and work in all latitudes of art, from photography, to video, through painting, installation and sculpture.
Considered a deity by ancient civilizations, adored as much as feared for its power; The Sun has always been an immense source of inspiration for artists. What the exhibition scans with a very broad prism: Here it is as much regarding “taking the sun”, by exposing oneself to it, as regarding trying to catch it, like Icarus’s dream.
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the fragment, Your phone needs to cool down2019
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aluminum, glass, 2 heating lights, LCD screen, smartphone, temperature sensor, telephone protection, electronic components • © Association Fragmentin
The star is first perceptible in its rays which Anne Lindberg materializes, upon entering the mezzanine, in an installation of several thousand colored cotton threads. A source of life but also of threat when the climate emergency comes, the glowing star also causes overheating – which an unusable cell phone reminds us of at 45°C in the collective of Swiss artists Fragmentin. Imagined in partnership with the Paris-PSL Observatory, located in Meudon for more than a hundred years, the luminous route, with its scenography the color of a Grenadine sunset, also includes the dazzling scientific observations of theastronomer Étienne Léopold Trouvelot (1827–1895).
The sun tattoos the skin, irises, burns, illuminates, and ignites mysticisms and fervor… What is said in his films Laurent Grasso while watching with the faithful for the appearance of the Virgin (Miracle of the Sun, Fatima2014) or the day star (Soleil double2014) between two towers of Mussolini architecture.
Penelope Umbrico, Suns from Sunsets from Flickr2006
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The sun is printed on the film of many photographers invited to this bath of light. With its wall of sunsets collected on the Flickr platform, the American Penelope Umbrico creates a dazzling panorama, when Guillaume Aubry drips a raw egg onto a postcard setting. In Radiance #8 Finisterrae (2022), Mustapha Azeroual brings together several photos of a unique landscape on the same medium, from sunrise to sunset, and creates a “lenticular” image: the colors of the sun move!
We finally walk with Martin Parr among the tanned skins of the Côte d’Azur. No need to slip away, we head to Hangar Y: but be careful, sunburn sets in so quickly!
From December 16, 2023 to April 21, 2024
Hangar Y • Avenue de Trivaux • 92360 Meudon
hangar-y.com
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