{"id":18927,"date":"2019-06-07T14:28:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T12:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marolles.brussels\/event\/opening-solo-show-by-thomas-devaux\/"},"modified":"2019-06-07T14:28:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T12:28:35","slug":"opening-solo-show-by-thomas-devaux","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/marolles.brussels\/nl\/event\/opening-solo-show-by-thomas-devaux\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening \/ Solo Show by Thomas Devaux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;CET OBSCUR OBJET DU DESIR&#8221;<br \/>\nRayons, Shoppers &amp; Totems<br \/>\nSolo Show<br \/>\nThomas Devaux<\/p>\n<p>Opening Night : 14.06.2019 &#8211; 6pm &gt; 9pm<br \/>\nExhibition : 14.06.2019 &gt; 30.06.2019<\/p>\n<p>FR<br \/>\nAvec les Rayons, Thomas Devaux compl\u00e8te sa vision critique de l\u2019univers consommatoire en se r\u00e9appropriant pour la premi\u00e8re fois les codes de la peinture abstraite, apr\u00e8s avoir longtemps revisit\u00e9 ceux du portrait classique. La s\u00e9rie r\u00e9unit ainsi des photographies d\u2019\u00e9tals de supermarch\u00e9, flout\u00e9es jusqu\u2019\u00e0 obtenir de larges lignes de couleurs aux contours ind\u00e9cis, articul\u00e9es entre elles dans un d\u00e9grad\u00e9 de lumi\u00e8re. Tr\u00e8s proche de certaines formes de l\u2019expressionisme abstrait, la peinture de Rothko en premi\u00e8re ligne, chaque composition se pr\u00e9sente comme l\u2019expression d\u2019un r\u00e9sidu optique, agen\u00e7ant les restes d\u2019une vision filtr\u00e9e r\u00e9duite \u00e0 la seule perception des ondes lumineuses. Aussi minimal que le traitement qui est appliqu\u00e9 aux images, son titre renvoie ainsi conjointement \u00e0 son sujet originel (les rayons de supermarch\u00e9) comme \u00e0 l\u2019effet d\u2019optique produit par le processus d\u2019abstractisation (les faisceaux chromatiques). Pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e en regard de la s\u00e9rie The Shoppers \u2014 des clients de supermarch\u00e9 saisis au moment du passage en caisse \u2014 et de l\u2019installation Cet obscur objet du d\u00e9sir \u2014 un tapis de caisse minimaliste aux formes incisives et mena\u00e7antes \u2014 la s\u00e9rie adopte les codes couleurs de la grande distribution (bleu, violet, rose, rouge, orange) pour mieux critiquer les strat\u00e9gies marketing sous-jacentes. Les tensions entre des tonalit\u00e9s vives et des bandes noires accentuent en effet la force de s\u00e9duction de cette palette standardis\u00e9e pour mieux inviter \u00e0 la m\u00e9fiance, en \u00e9tablissant une distance critique entre les surfaces chromatiques sublim\u00e9es et la trivialit\u00e9 de leurs mod\u00e8les.<\/p>\n<p>Contrastant avec les portraits en noir et blanc de The Shoppers, ces compositions non figuratives et color\u00e9es, avec un rendu flottant et fugitif, produisent un effet contemplatif \u00e0 double tranchant : elles peuvent ironiquement reproduirent les conditions d\u2019un processus hypnotique, similaire aux manipulations de l\u2019attention des clients dans les supermarch\u00e9s, comme elles peuvent au contraire inviter \u00e0 une m\u00e9ditation patiente et improductive, offrant la possibilit\u00e9 de s\u2019extraire des temps de la consommation.<\/p>\n<p>Ces lignes d\u2019horizon \u00e9vanescentes orientent enfin une lecture plus spirituelle de la s\u00e9rie, renouant avec les discours des Kandinsky, Rothko ou Newman pour qui la peinture abstraite est l\u2019occasion d\u2019un acc\u00e8s m\u00e9taphysique. Thomas Devaux poursuit ici son travail de d\u00e9construction de l\u2019iconographie religieuse (Piet\u00e0, Madone, reliques) entrepris dans ses pr\u00e9c\u00e9dentes s\u00e9ries pour questionner les nouvelles transcendances du monde contemporain. L\u2019industrie est alors pens\u00e9e comme une puissance ext\u00e9rieure r\u00e9gulatrice, qui organise la consommation de masse \u00e0 travers tout un ensemble de symboles mercantiles. En empruntant le vocabulaire formel de la repr\u00e9sentation du divin pour traiter le mobilier industriel des supermarch\u00e9s, Thomas Devaux met en exergue la force de subversion de l\u2019industrie qui f\u00e9tichise les marchandises comme on sacralise des ic\u00f4nes.<\/p>\n<p>Florian Gait\u00e9, Critique d\u2019art et chercheur \u00e0 l\u2019institut ACTE (Sorbonne-CNRS)<\/p>\n<p>EN<br \/>\nWith his Rayons series, Thomas Devaux completes his critical vision of the universe of consumption by appropriating the codes of abstract painting, following his extended study of classical portraiture. The works consist of photographs of supermarket shelves, blurred into broad bands of colour with uncertain contours that together form luminous gradients. The minimalism of Devaux\u2019s series is reflected in its title, which stands as a dual reference to his original subjects (les rayons du supermarch\u00e9 = supermarket shelves) and simultaneously to the optical effect produced by the process of abstraction (les rayons de lumi\u00e8re = beams of light). Presented here in dialogue with The Shoppers \u2013 featuring supermarket customers at the cash register, and the installation Cet obscur objet du d\u00e9sir, a minimalist conveyer belt with incisive and menacing forms \u2013 the Rayons series redeploys the chromatic register of big-box retailers (blue, purple, pink, red, orange) to critique their marketing strategies.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast to the black and white portraits of The Shoppers, these colorful, non-figurative compositions, with their evanescent finish invites a double contemplation. This something that can ironically give rise to the conditions of a hypnotic process similar to the visual manipulations exerted over supermarket customers. However at the same time, it makes possible a patient and improductive meditation through which the viewer can exit from the temporalities of consumption.<\/p>\n<p>The fleeting horizon lines of the series ultimately promote a spiritual reading that echoes the discourses of Kandinsky, Rothko, Newman and other painters for whom abstraction offered access to the metaphysical. Thomas Devaux extends here the deconstruction of religious iconography \u2013 Piet\u00e0s, Madonnas, relics \u2013 that he began in previous series in order to interrogate the possibilities of transcendence in the contemporary world. Commerce is considered as an external, ordering power that organizes mass consumption through a system of symbols. Drawing on the formal vocabulary of representations of the divine to engage with the industrial furniture of the supermarket, Thomas Devaux underscores the subversive power of an industry that is able to fetishize commodities as a religion consecrates its icons.<\/p>\n<p>Florian Gait\u00e9, Art Critic (Artpress, France Culture&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;CET OBSCUR OBJET DU DESIR&#8221; Rayons, Shoppers &amp; Totems Solo Show Thomas Devaux Opening Night : 14.06.2019 &#8211; 6pm &gt; 9pm Exhibition : 14.06.2019 &gt; 30.06.2019 FR Avec les Rayons, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":18924,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-18927","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"cubewp_post_meta":[],"taxonomies":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Opening \/ Solo Show by Thomas Devaux - Marolles<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/marolles.brussels\/nl\/event\/opening-solo-show-by-thomas-devaux\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"nl_NL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Opening \/ Solo Show by Thomas Devaux - Marolles\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&#8220;CET OBSCUR OBJET DU DESIR&#8221; 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