Exposition
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Exhibited until February 16 at the Parisian institution, the creatures of the Swiss sculptor who died in 2012 are overwhelming with their peaceful grace.
Artists are rarely wrong about their peers. However, at the end of the moving and miraculous Hans Josephsohn exhibition, a video brings together the testimonies of the fan club of this sculptor who died in 2012, at the age of 92. Previously, it had only been shown once in Paris, at the Palais de Tokyo, more than fifteen years ago, in a collective show curated by the artist Ugo Rondinone. Who appears precisely in this little film, just like Thomas Houseago, Simone Fattal or Rachel Harrison, the elite of contemporary sculpture, competing for praise on this work admirably staged by the painter Albert Oehlen in a retrospective at the Museum of modern Art in Paris. The exhibition is permeated by a serious, white, bare atmosphere inhabited by blocks of plaster, sometimes cast in bronze or brass, with a rough surface and compact corpulence.
Swirls and refluxes of viscous plaster
In the magma of their whitish or grayish bodies or heads, these statues barely represent human beings. Lying or standing, full-length or bust-length, they suggest the presence of female characters.
