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DENIS - PANE

DENIS – PANE

Galerie Alberta Pane, 14 rue Saint-Claude, 75003 Paris, Tel : 00 33 (0)1 43 06 58 72
April 6 - May 11, 2013

Marie Denis, L’oeuf-gigogne, 2011, acacia, lime tree, and walnut For « Lucy », her third solo show at Alberta Pane Gallery, Marie Denis has chosen to present new large format sculptures. But who is Lucy? Our ancestor, of course, that Australopithecus afarensis, the first woman, the first lady… On this occasion the gallery will turn into a place of birth, of origins, of a beginning. It is also a metaphor for an impossible acquaintance, for the difficulty – impossibility even? – to transfer any knowledge of reality. A reality transformed into knowledge, on which Marie Denis has focused before in some sort of curiosity chambers – exhibition designs that could so suitably be described by the term « Wunderkammer », i.e. « Chamber of Wonders ».

Contrary to the exuberance of these previous exhibitions, the gallery now presents a return to « primary », or « primal », pieces, touching the origin of things, of life. The sculptures of Marie Denis lead us to the very soul of objects (for Marie Denis, every object has a soul) that is disclosed by her creations’ sheer force.

L’oeuf gigogne* (The Nesting Egg) in its exaggerated dimensions is made from acacia, lime tree and walnut; it appears as a symbol of birth and every source of life, but also as a pure sculpture of exceptional beauty. Le cheval (The Horse) is an animist piece that wakes our forgotten primal instincts. Les cigarettes russes (The Russian Cigarettes) is the output of a botanist’s work, materialising and reifying plants. Nue, (La grappe de raisin*) empty without any grapes, is a biomorphic sculpture that evokes an ancient and primitive way of life. Marie Denis holds a peculiar interest in the vegetal and mineral world; she has a great sense of materiality and of the materiel to which she introduces a second meaning, a new life

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