Elisabeth Ballet's 'Corridor' at Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris
French artist Elisabeth Ballet, known for her minimalist sculptures, is finally receiving a major institutional exhibition in France at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. The show features her installation 'Corridor,' a work that reconfigures space through simple yet complex geometric forms. Ballet's earlier work, such as her 1996 exhibition 'Sugar Hiccup' at Tramway in Glasgow, included pieces like 'Contrôle 3' (a plexiglass parallelepiped), 'Delta' (three self-enclosed barriers), and 'Cale' (a circle of raw wooden planks slightly raised from the floor), all set on a unified layer of fine salt. Her practice challenges the poetic pessimism of writers like Antonin Artaud and Charles Baudelaire, asserting a constructive, spatial optimism.
Key facts
- Elisabeth Ballet exhibited at Tramway in Glasgow in 1996 as part of 'Sugar Hiccup'.
- Her sculptures at Tramway included 'Contrôle 3', 'Delta', and 'Cale'.
- The floor at Tramway was covered with a thick layer of fine salt.
- Ballet's work 'Corridor' is now on view at Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
- The exhibition marks Ballet's first major institutional show in France.
- Ballet's work is described as alternating between simplicity and extreme complexity.
- The title references Artaud and Baudelaire, whose views Ballet's work counters.
- The article was published in artpress in October 1997.
Entities
Artists
- Elisabeth Ballet
Institutions
- Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
- Tramway
- artpress
Locations
- Glasgow
- Scotland
- Paris
- France
Sources
- artpress —