Intervention of the students of the Villa arson in the collections of the Museum of archaeology of Nice – site of Cimiez
From 13 to 21 may 2017
Opening Saturday, may 13th, 2017 at 11am
The object, as André Leroi-Gourhan has said, has a double nature: it is transmissible and reborn. What is art interested in and what is archaeology doing? Is archaeology retrospective when art is prospective?
Opus Mixtum seeks to create a place where the different times associated with the evolution of the material and artistic culture coexist.
It is by relying on the sensitive relationships between the different trajectories that the objects take, the networks they create, the points of articulation between the eras, the possible ruptures, that the exhibition questions our relationship to the world, its different representations over time. To make the place speak, the objects, by the reconstitution, the appropriation, allows the appearance of the Phantom of the transmission.
These tracks are all impulses that engage us in the personal and collective experience of writing history.
The hypothesis of filiation will be used to question the idea that the artist is master of his creation in favor of the thought of Nelson Goodman that "to build the world as we know how to do it, we always start with worlds already available; do is redo. "
The exhibition is part of the activities of theresearch unit Bricologie* of the Villa arson – Ecole Nationale Superieure d'art, which deploys a space of reflection between professors, students, artists and academics invited around the ways of making art and contemporary technical cultures.
It brings together a selection of students and artists-researchers, active members of the research unit.
Curator: Burkard Blümlein, artist and Professor at Villa arson