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Thomas Mailaender
Radiant capsule - THOMAS MAILAENDER
Greenhouse
From 4 to 26 April 2020
Opening on Saturday 4 April from 6.30 p.m.
Concert FRESCHARD & STANLEY BRINKS 8.30pm
Curator, with Marc Bruckert, of the exhibition Michel Lépinay: Hara-Kiri's first photographer 1961-1967 presented in Piacé in 2017, Thomas Mailaender is back in our town, where from 4 to 26 April he will be presenting his installation Greenhouse. This piece will be exhibited in the Bézard - Le Corbusier space, where it will interact with the utopian project imagined for the countryside in the 1930s by Norbert Bézard and Le Corbusier. Greenhouse was created and presented in 2019 to coincide with the exhibition Better photography at the invitation of architect Franklin Azzi. Greenhouse
Installation Greenhouse features a series of photographs of sunsets that the artist has accumulated. The sunset is one of the most photographed subjects in the world. Inside the structure, viewers are invited to consult a collection of books, each cover of which is also illustrated with a sunset. These images are printed directly onto the transparent walls of a garden greenhouse.. The work questions the limits of photography, and invites visitors to physically grasp images that the artist has collected and reappropriated.
Thomas Mailaender
Thomas Mailaender (born 1979 in Marseille) is a French multimedia artist who lives and works in Paris. Known for his use of a wide range of media: ceramics, cyanotype, photography and collage, he often incorporates images and found objects into his work, exposing obsolete photographic processes as a handyman and archaeologist of the present day. Through his collecting and curatorial practices, he has amassed an important collection of The Fun Archaeology whose documents highlight the very absurdity of his subjects, the vernacular richness of their language and their accidental poetry. His work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions in France and abroad (Palais de Tokyo Paris, NRW Forum Düsseldorf, Saatchi Gallery London etc.). He is also recognised for his work as a curator (Hara Kiri, Rencontres d'Arles 2016 ; Photo Pleasure Palace with Erik Kessels, Unseen Amsterdam 2017 etc.).
