18.03.2011, Conférence de Thomas Hirschhorn, artiste
Depuis la fin des années 1980, Thomas Hirschhorn se concentre sur la création de sculptures précaires faites main. Il les conçoit à partir de matériaux issus de la vie courante tels que des vieux papiers, des feuilles d'aluminium, des cartons. Ses sculptures sont souvent des "monuments" à des personnes qu'il admire. Elles requièrent parfois la participation de la population locale, tant il est vrai que Thomas Hirschhorn refuse d'être un artiste confiné aux salons mondains.
L'œuvre de Thomas Hirschhorn est traversée par les questions, les contradictions et les scandales qui taraudent la société contemporaine, marquée par la mondialisation. L'artiste milite en faveur davantage de justice et d'égalité.
Energie oui, qualité non, affirme cet artiste, créateur d'installations apparemment désordonnées, improvisées et pauvres, mais fortement structurées en réalité.
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In the empty spaces I find pieces of dreams fields and water, of the forgotten green. A stratification of memories that leads to reveal experiences in natural landscapes, real but also places suspended between memory and the dreamlike, creating through geometric and repetitive shapes a space of contemplation on places, to find them again; postcards of a fragile and continuously changing landscape.
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