'Titiriteros', 2023, by Victor Man. VICTOR MAN. PINAULT COLLECTION.
Chiaroscuro has haunted the history of art. Starting on March 4, the Bourse de commerce will embrace this dramatic art technique that constrasts shadow and light with "Clair-obscur": a collective exhibition that brings together around 20 artists who explore this paradoxical concept, mainly through works from the Pinault Collection.
These works evoke twilight, embrace the night and await the day, poised on the edge of the visible and invisible. "They embody a strong tendency among today's artists to resist too much light, too much clarity, too many artificial emotions and this resonates deeply with our present," shared Emma Lavigne, the director general of the Pinault Collection and the curator of the exhibition.
Heirs of Caravaggio, the Baroque master who pushed pictorial technique to its limits, the gathered artists offer a contemporary interpretation on a path unavoidably tinged with darkness. There are bodies fragmenting in Danh Vō's work; bodies igniting in the mesmerizing videos of Bill Viola; atoms exploing in Trisha Donnelly's pieces; young girls flirting with death in Victor Man's paintings.
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