Didier Marcel – MUDAM Luxembourg 10.10.2009/03.01.2010

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DIDIER MARCEL at The Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art – MUDAM LUXEMBOURG – 10.10.2009 – 03.01.2010
“It’s a question of admitting that art is not life and that art is always a difference produced between a real thing and its translation.”
Didier Marcel

“A profound artistic curiosity for sculptural questions concerning shape, size, texture and presentation is combined in the work of Didier Marcel with the know-how of an artist capable of orchestrating craftsmen specialised in contemporary materials to conceive sophisticated results.

The often mundane motifs of the works of Didier Marcel draw from the lands of his immediate environment. The tree trunk moulds in polyester resin adopt the position of supporting columns whose fibrous surfaces perfectly reflect the ornamental character of the bark. Extracts of imaginary landscapes or elements of images in space, his works represent the details of a reality whose alienation underlines how the ideas that one has about nature are a cultural production. Didier Marcel is as much interested in plays of scale as he is in the sophisticated framing of his works. The very particular plinth structures, or the production in a sales showroom style, underlines the artificial character of the situation. It is with a certain elegance that the artist refers to art history without, however, citing it too explicitly. Didier Marcel responds to the sometimes nostalgic tones of his works with an impeccable technical perfection and surprising coloured accents.”

Curator: Clément Minighetti (Mudam)

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