Events

The World on the Move

sun. 12 Jan. - mon. 13 Apr.

art
exhibition

Mudam Luxembourg - Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean presents Le Monde en mouvement, made from works from the Mudam collection. This thematic presentation brings together nine artists of various generations and discusses the multiple ways in which this notion feeds their research.
The phenomenon of movement - that suggested of a body or an object, real of an image that comes alive or even metaphorical of the world around us - crosses artistic creation. Entitled Le Monde en mouvement, this presentation made from works from the Mudam collection brings together nine artists of various generations and addresses the multiple ways in which this notion feeds their research. For some through the use of technical processes that have marked the history of modernity such as photography, using which Jochen Lempert (born in 1958 in Moers) explores nature. Its attentive eye extracts its beauty through its most discreet manifestations: that, for example, of a glowworm become a luminous trace and which evokes experiences of capturing the movement of light at the beginning of the 20th century. Pioneer of the experimental animated film, Robert Breer (* 1926, Detroit - 2011, Tucson) accelerates the succession of images and drawings testing the limits of our perceptual capacity while Jack Goldstein (* 1945, Montreal - 2003, San Bernadino) captures rotoscopy, a cinematographic technique which appeared at the end of the 19th century and which redraws the contours filmed. The Jump (1978) thus transforms the jump of a filmed diver into a mechanical image, extracted from all reality, in which the dynamics of movement take precedence.
Other artists approach the latter in an optical way, thus recalling the experiments of kinetic art in the 1950s. The light installation by Conrad Shawcross (born in 1977 in London) projects on the surrounding walls a geometric motif in movement hypnotic and dizzying at the same time. Or physically like Žilvinas Kempinas (born in 1969 in Plung?), Whose animated sculpture seems to defy, with lightness and poetry, the laws of gravity. Finally, the movement of the world and, more broadly, of the cosmos, appears in the expanding sculpture of Miguel Ângelo Rocha (born in 1965 in Lisbon), the dynamic patterns of Dominique Gauthier (born in 1953 in Paris) or the works of Attila Csörg? (born in 1965 in Budapest). Playing with the boundaries between science and art, the latter designs a fragile puppet theater in which various geometric forms, all symbols of the physical elements and the cosmos, appear and disappear over a carefully regulated choreography. Finally, for Michel Paysant (* 1955, Bouzonville), whose work Attracteurs transcribes the recording of eye movement during sleep, art is an experimental field that can advance research.