Contact > Juan Carlos Bendana-Pinel T > + 33 (0) 1 42 74 22 97 P > + 33 (0) 6 14 71 21 81 jc@bendana-pinel.com www.bendana-pinel.com Morgane Denzler MAPS IN PROGRESS January 10th > March 5th 2015 4, RUE DU PERCHE 75003 PARIS MARDI > SAMEDI 11H > 19H tél. > + 33 (0) 1 42 74 22 97 fax > + 33 (0) 1 42 74 25 29 mail > galerie@bendana-pinel.com www.bendana-pinel.com
Contact > Juan Carlos Bendana-Pinel T > + 33 (0) 1 42 74 22 97 P > + 33 (0) 6 14 71 21 81 jc@bendana-pinel.com www.bendana-pinel.com Morgane Denzler MAPS IN PROGRESS Exhibition from January 10th to March 5th 2015 It s while climbing-descending that one enters the landscape, it is by crossing it from part to part that we spread it. François Jullien. Vivre de Paysage (2014)*. In Europe, the landscape is defined as «the part of a country which nature presents to an observer», Man is thus placed at a distance. In China, the landscape forms a whole within which Man is perfectly integrated. Morgane Denzler relates the two concepts of the landscape and asks about its representation: how to conceive it physically, visually and conceptually? Through her photographic and the cartographic, the artist opens the field of the landscape and questions the difficult relationship existing between Man and Nature. In Europe, the landscape is guided by a constant géométrisation ; a normalization which led to a reduction of the space a the human scale (in particular to the scale of the hand): it is codified, split up, measured, folded. The landscape is not thought in terms of an emotional and/or physical experience, but in terms of marks, juxtaposed images. It is the stripped for an optimal control of space. This authoritarian look applied on the landscape generates a distance between the human being and what surrounds it. On the contrary, the Chinese culture thinks about the human being in the landscape; He lives in fully, He is part of it and does not try to extract Himself; quite the opposite. In the continuity of her researches about memory and l andscape, Morgane Denzler appropriates the two visions where the holistic approach opposes that of the point of view, thus putting two philosophies in tension. The result is a new series of works where the landscape is folded, unfolded, opened in space, It so crosses the boundaries of cartography and photos of Alpine landscapes. Mountain ranges, unbridgeable rocks, vast greenery, depth of lakes become entangled with the grids, with the marks, with the standardized colors and with the folding of the map. The artist invites us to forget the sole point of view in benefit of a deconcentration of the sight. Our gaze has to «wonder so that the landscape appears.» It is then a question of letting the landscape come in us with what it reveals and what it hide; its foldings and its sequences of movements. Morgane Denzler deconstructs a false relationship with nature, the standardizing concepts are diverted to make a poem and an experience (visual and sensorial) of the landscape. All it takes is to be absorbed by the landscape the correlations of which are permanent and infinite. If the Westerners set up a strategy of reduction of the landscape in their scale, the artist reminds the infinite, the depth and the density. In her work the landscape is not only the meeting place between Man and its environment, it is above all the place of «the operation of the world». * All the quotations are extracted from the same book. Julie Crenn 4, RUE DU PERCHE 75003 PARIS MARDI > SAMEDI 11H > 19H tél. > + 33 (0) 1 42 74 22 97 fax > + 33 (0) 1 42 74 25 29 mail > galerie@bendana-pinel.com www.bendana-pinel.com
Morgane Denzler (Maisons-Laffitte, 1986) lives and works in Brussels, Belgium Exhibitions : «il reste encore une carte à jouer», CCAM galerie Robert Doisneau, Nancy, France (2014) «Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain c/o Galleri Charlotte Lund», Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden (2014) «Au délabrement du monde, la photographie reconnaissante», centre d art de la ville de Bourg en Bresse, France (2014) «1825 DAYS», Bendana I Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France (2013) «Artissima», Turin, Italy (2013) «Ceux qui restent», Bendana I Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France () «Artissima», Turin, Italy () «Ch.ACO», Contemporary Art Fair in Santiago, Chile () «Open Studio», Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France () «ArtRio», Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2011) «Carte Blanche à un collectionneur», Galerie Bendana I Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France (2009) «Cheval de Troie», CAES, Ris-Orangis, France (2008) Residence : Fondation des Treilles, Tourtour, France (2013) Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France () Awards : Public award Science-Po pour l art contemporain, Paris, France (2013) SATINO, 3 Boromé, Paris, France () Price of the portrait, «amis des Beaux- Arts», Beaux-Arts de Paris, France () 4, RUE DU PERCHE 75003 PARIS MARDI > SAMEDI 11H > 19H tél. > + 33 (0) 1 42 74 22 97 fax > + 33 (0) 1 42 74 25 29 mail > galerie@bendana-pinel.com www.bendana-pinel.com
Grand format, 2014 Digital print folded 192 x 240 cm Edition : 3
Fragment 12, 2014 Series : Point de vue/variation Digital prints mounted on aluminium 29,7 x 21 cm Edition : unique PRESS RELEASE
Fragment 13, 2014 Series : Point de vue/variation Digital prints mounted on aluminium 29,7 x 21 cm Edition : unique PRESS RELEASE
Diptyque 1, 2014 2 Digital prints mounted on aluminium 96 x 120 cm Edition : 3
Morgane Denzler 1986 2006-2009 2009 2010-2011 2011 Born in Maisons-Laffitte, France Workshop with Jean-Marc Bustamente National Diploma of Plastic Arts, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris, France Workshop with Christian Boltanski Workshop with Patrick Tosani Higher National Diploma in Plastic Arts, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris, France Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection) 2015 2014 Maps in progress, Bendana I Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France il reste encore une carte à jouer, CCAM galerie Robert Doisneau, Nancy, France Ceux qui restent, Bendana I Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France GROUP EXHIBITION (selection) 2014 2013 2011 2010 2009 2008 Silence face, galerie 22,48m2 Paris, France Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain c/o Galleri Charlotte Lund, Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden Au délabrement du monde, la photographie reconnaissante, centre d art de la ville de Bourg en Bresse, France tracé, galerie Lot 10, Brussels, Belgium Circulation(s) 2013, Festival de la jeune photographie européenne, Galerie Côté Seine & Trianon du Parc Bagatelle, Paris, France 1825 DAYS, Bendana I Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France Artissima, Turin, Italy Artissima, Turin, Italy Ch.ACO, Contemporary Art Fair in Santiago, Chile Open Studio, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France ArtRio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Centre Autonome d Expérimentation Sociale (CAES), Ris-Orangis, France Carte Blanche à un collectionneur, Galerie Bendana I Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France Cheval de Troie, CAES, Ris-Orangis, France
PUBLICATIONS (selection) 2014 2013 Ho, Benjamin, Cacao magazine, Taiwan, Max Wang, 2014, p. 66-69. Poivert, Michel & Jones, Julie, Histoires de la Photographie, France, Le Point du Jour, 2014, p. 113. Circulation(s), Cat. Exp., France, Editions Trans Photographic Press / Diffusion Pollen-Littéral, 2013, p. 46. Lalande, Pierre-Antoine, Mafouta, Lié, Perraud, Thomas, Perrichon, Mina, Prix Science-Po, Cat. Exp., Paris, Sciences-Po Les Presses, 2013, p 34-36. Drowilal, Robert, Interview, Interviews Magazine - Art, n 3, September. RESIDENCE 2013 Fondation des Treilles, Tourtour, France Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France AWARDS 2013 Public award Science-Po pour l art contemporain, Paris, France SATINO, 3 Boromé, Paris, France Price of the portrait, «amis des Beaux-Arts», Beaux-Arts of Paris, France