Paris – You don’t need eyes to see

Above - Renaud Jerez, Produire le même: comme négativité, et différence, 2010. Courtesy: Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris.

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“You don’t need eyes to see”, installation view, 2010. Courtesy: Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris.

“You don’t need eyes to see”, installation view, 2010. Courtesy: Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris.

Matthew Smith, installation view, 2010. Courtesy: Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris.

The collective exhibition “You don’t need eyes to see” at Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, brings together works by four young artists who utilize a primarily analytical approach in their plastic research. Their works celebrates doubt and uncertainty in an anti-spectacular style involving a spare, rational use of matter.

French artist Benoît Maire (left) explores our affective relationship with forms, sounding the depths of the visible by means of a self-reflective art that disturbs the customary language/image equation. The Milanese artist Luca Francesconi (right) also bases his reflection on a dialectic of the view, probing the relationships between man and matter, controlled human action and the more unpredictable action of nature.

Navid Nuur is concerned with dissecting the mechanisms of perception, creating new links between language and object, showing a taste for rudimentary compositions of ambiguous meaning. Renaud Jerez, instead, makes light of platitudes and standardized patterns of perception; his interest lies in bringing into relation with one another disparate objects, that then enter into negotiations on both the spatial and conceptual levels.

The works of the young English artist Matthew Smith often disembodied forms take meaning as far distraction and undifferentiation. The ideas are the objects, and the visible is therefore more resistant to the viewer, sometimes even becoming completely hermetic.

(source: www.moussemagazine.it)