For its third exhibition in the emblematic Hôtel Richer de Belleval, the GGL Foundation invites the world-renowned artist Tadashi Kawamata who has specially imagined a project for the place. A universe to discover until December 10 in the hotel but also on the Place de la Canourgue.
The artist exhibits not only in the rooms of the foundation, but he also wanted to go beyond them, by installing nests (Nest) in the interior courtyard of the building, and tree huts (Tree Huts) on the square of the Canourgue. These have an ambivalent status, between precarious habitats (however too small and fragile to be invested) and objects. Tree huts are meant to be visited by the viewer’s imagination. In the courtyard, the Nests are like deserted swallows’ nests. Kawamata made a very large one that did not appear in his initial project, proof that along the way and according to the work, intentions change.
Finally, in the foundation itself, the artist exhibits the models of the Montpellier projects, paintings in relief which oscillate between sketches and autonomous works. A game is thus established between the third and second dimensions, between interior and exterior, between public and private spaces. Like the egg and the chicken, we come to wonder which came first.
Born in 1953 in Mikasa, Tadashi Kawamata has exhibited all over the world and led projects in New York, Abu Dhabi and Tokyo. He lives in Paris.
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