an exhibition
The project was built around rapprochements between parts selected in the Barbier-Mueller collections and works that Jacques Kaufmann has produced in his workshop and in the world , on long times, trying to identify the meeting points like the gaps.
The viewer making the picture, this exhibition links works of origins, temporalities, various materialities, so that The visitor recreates his own correspondences for himself, enriching the proposed resonances.
a meeting
Sanctuary of objects of various origins, all more remarkable that the others, the Barbier-Mueller museum brings together a collection internationally recognized as a high place of so-called "primitive" arts, or "distant arts", depending on the variation of terminologies in time.
ceramics, which inscribed in the field of contemporary art and its contextual practices They also seek to meet what makes permanence and differences within human expressions, through time and space. In the field of arts, the past does not really pass. The forms reactivate, re-emerge, reappropriate each other, find themselves.
The differences, correspondences, conjunctions, analogies, intervals between works make it possible to perceive everything that can help make this effort effective collective of humanity over time to meet its basic spiritual needs. The permanence and movements of forms contradict the concept of progress in art.
This exposure is the 50th program Congress of the International Ceramic Academy (AIC) which will be held in Geneva from September 12 to 16, 2022.