Didier Marcel's 'The Sounds Inside my Mind' at Galerie Nathalie Seroussi

Didier Marcel's exhibition 'The Sounds Inside my Mind' at Galerie Nathalie Seroussi in Paris, from October 2 to November 20, 2010, features sculptures and installations that explore the relationship between landscape, sculpture, and ornamentation. The show begins with a white replica of a plane tree trunk, evoking fragmentation and elevation. Upstairs, a model based on Malevich's 'Charge of the Red Cavalry' presents colored earth layers, described by Bruno Dumont as taking earth out of its natural context to create an almost absolute representation. The exhibition includes a TGV platform mesh wall, a pile of logs, faux stone blocks, and wrinkled black paper resembling crows. Four white tree trunks (black pine, spruce, cedar, American black walnut) on black wheels divide the space like pillars of a Romanesque church. A model of a 1970s administrative building under demolition sits on a platter with a white sheep. The techniques of molding and flocking ennoble the trees, allowing them to lose reality and become furniture-like. The final room, lit with yellowish light, features sawhorses and iron structures that appear incandescent, suggesting forests growing on animal silhouettes.