Isabelle Cornaro's Object-Oriented Art at Collège des Bernardins
From May 6 to July 3, 2011, Isabelle Cornaro will showcase her work at Collège des Bernardins in Paris, under the curation of Jean de Loisy and Alain Berland. This will be followed by an exhibition at Le Magasin in Grenoble in 2012. Cornaro's art investigates the nature of objects, drawing inspiration from Walt Disney cartoons and Karl Marx's concept of commodity fetishism. Her project 'Celebration' highlights scenes from Disney films where inanimate objects exhibit emotions. In 'Paysage avec Poussin et témoins oculaires' (2008-2010), she uses a Poussin painting to organize various objects. The 'Homonymes 1, 2, 3, 4' series (2010) showcases plaster casts. Additionally, her films, such as 'De l'argent filmé de profil et de trois quarts' (2010), delve into fundamental cinematic aspects. In 2011, she will create casts of Baroque church facades for the Fondazione Rebaudengo in Turin.
Key facts
- Isabelle Cornaro exhibits at Collège des Bernardins, Paris, May 6–July 3, 2011.
- Curators: Jean de Loisy and Alain Berland.
- Follow-up exhibition at Le Magasin, Grenoble in 2012.
- Project 'Celebration' extracts object-animation sequences from Walt Disney cartoons.
- Work references Karl Marx's commodity fetishism from 'Capital' Book I.
- 'Paysage avec Poussin et témoins oculaires' inverts Nicolas Poussin's compositional method.
- Series 'Homonymes 1, 2, 3, 4' shown at Galerie Balice Hertling in spring 2010.
- Film 'De l'argent filmé de profil et de trois quarts' (2010) films coins and banknotes.
- Film 'Floues et colorées' (2010) made with spray paint for camera frame.
- Film 'Film-lampe' (2010) pans over light bulbs and neon tubes.
- Fondazione Rebaudengo, Turin, exhibition 'Un'espressione geografica' in 2011.
- Artist's residency at ISCP, New York, 2010–2011.
- Principle of remediation: transferring motifs across media.
Entities
Artists
- Isabelle Cornaro
- Haim Steinbach
- Bertrand Lavier
- Walt Disney
- Karl Marx
- Marcel Duchamp
- Nicolas Poussin
- Claude Monet
- Georges Didi-Huberman
- Walter Benjamin
- Marjolaine Lévy
- Martin Boyce
- Stefan Brüggemann
- Veit Stratmann
Institutions
- Collège des Bernardins
- Le Magasin-Centre national d'art contemporain
- Galerie Balice Hertling
- Frieze Art Fair
- Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen
- Centre d'art contemporain, Troyes
- Fondazione Rebaudengo
- ISCP (International Studio & Curatorial Program)
- artpress
Locations
- Paris
- France
- Grenoble
- Dusseldorf
- Germany
- London
- United Kingdom
- Troyes
- Turin
- Italy
- New York
- United States
Sources
- artpress —