Since antiquity, the human condition has been a recurring philosophical questioning in societies. If religion sometimes gave him a frame, the fact remains that the monuments erected then tended to appease by faith, an anxiety of emptiness. What purpose for existence? What meaning at work? Here are questions that are always inexhaustible. Albert Camus, in his essay The Myth of Sisyphus published in 1942, takes the Greek legend of the same name in reverse. According to him, "we must imagine Sisyphus happy": certainly, every day this man carries his stone, but his greatness lies in the realization of this task, not in its ultimate goal. The exhibition "On the horizon" invites us to continue this reflection, with the proposals of three artists from the Galerie Géraldine Banier.
Maguy Banq was born in 1948 in Marseillan, in the south of France. She acquired the different techniques of bronze sculpture and the casting of this one with lost wax, at the School of Fine Arts of Mexico. Today she shares her time between her home town and San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Existentialism is central in the work of Maguy Banq: the human is tirelessly seeking its raison d'être. Sculpted characters, asexual, take on a universal dimension. Nothing physically allows them to be differentiated from one another - so much so that they could well embody the successive stages of the wandering of one and the same individual.
Born in 1969 in Roccavione, Italy, Marco Cordero studied sculpture at the Academia Albertina di Belle Arte in Turin, where he lives and works today. His work questions the object book, receptacle of individual and collective memory. Truncated, dug, pruned, the latter becomes the formal support of rites that have nothing to do with its primary communicative role. Marco Cordero presents a return of the printed book to pure, original material. Sometimes, however, a literary reference emerges, gives as horizon a fragment of narrative, to fall back into an illegible matrix.
Alexia Tailleur was born in Orléans in 1983. Painter and photographer, she studied visual arts at the University of Toulouse, then learned the different techniques of foil gilding in an Italian monastery, accompanying her approach with a research paper around thematic icons. She lives and works today in Toulouse. His work offers martyrs and pilgrims modern, marginal and homeless times. Religion disappears to become social philosophy. The gold leaf forms a new stratum of the image, a precious touch eclipsing the trivial.