Raphaël Siboni's Kant Tuning Club at Galerie Analix Forever
Raphaël Siboni's inaugural exhibition, 'Kant Tuning Club,' is currently on display at Galerie Analix Forever in Geneva, showcasing a blend of sculpture and narrative. The exhibit features a fictional film, a car chassis draped in a tarp and adorned with black feathers, two costumes from the film, photographs, and nails. Siboni's creations intertwine object creation with storytelling, drawing parallels to Matthew Barney but with a heightened sense of absurdity. The show delves into concepts such as space/time, the dialectics of matter/form, language, and the interplay between popular and high culture. It raises profound questions regarding the formation of objects and the individual's role in the universe. The exhibition is open from June 7 to September 5, 2007.
Key facts
- Raphaël Siboni's first exhibition at Galerie Analix Forever in Geneva.
- Exhibition titled 'Kant Tuning Club' runs from June 7 to September 5, 2007.
- Work combines sculpture and fiction, including a film, car chassis with black feathers, zipper and hair costumes, photos, and nails.
- Siboni's practice hybridizes object-making and narrative writing.
- Comparisons made to Matthew Barney, but with more absurdity and less forced symbolism.
- Explores four constants: space/time and speed, matter/form dialectics, language as 'already said', and popular vs. high culture.
- Film includes a character impersonating Gilles Deleuze, with dialogue from Deleuze's 'Abécédaire'.
- Exhibition poses existential aesthetic questions about form, action, mutation, and subjectivity.
Entities
Artists
- Raphaël Siboni
- Matthew Barney
- Gilles Deleuze
Institutions
- Galerie Analix Forever
Locations
- Geneva
- Switzerland
Sources
- artpress —