Daniel Firman, Josephine 2011
polyester resin, clothing, 155 x 74 x 42 cm
Courtesy Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin
Press Gallery:
"Backflip" reveals a set of new sculptures by Daniel Firman. Through everyday objects and moldings, the exhibition articulates visions of turning, reversing and attraction. Just like the backflip, freestyle figure complex is to produce a jump back on itself, the exhibition brings together works whose original subject is seen in reverse when the outside becomes and vice versa. By Daniel Firman develops its privileged relationship to the body by exploring the laws of physics with a sort of logic identical to backflip, first performed acrobatic weightless ("Jenny", 2011).
Time seems to stand the figures in action, freezing them in their choreographic gesture. They reflect past performance as laphotographie of 'what was' or casts on nature of the nineteenth century the anatomy of the human body (rising from the walls of the gallery, hands and wrists bronze containing secret items, recall this method). In
"Rotomatic" Daniel Firman rotates a washing machine on itself to the rhythm of washing programs. The fall of a granite slab on a freezer (evocation of the proposed Bertrand Lavier Daniel Firman had been diverted in "Free Fall", 2007) was written by the artist who operates as a time dilation. A chair
bronze mimics the lightweight polystyrene playing on a placement in abyss of mimesis, "More weight", 2011. Finally, a home bronze archaic, archetypal pattern, invites contemplation, "The Fire", 2011, but also refers more psychological and symbolic at the immutability of things / items through the ages.
Daniel Firman experiments through heterogeneous contexts, material and body awareness in space and society in the tradition of Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman and Dennis Oppenheim.
Opening Saturday, February 26, 2011
exhibition until April 30, 2011
76 rue de Turenne Paris
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