Michel Blazy (exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo)

2007 04 21 – 14 07 57

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MICHEL BLAZY
Post Patman
01 FEB -06 MAY 07
An exhibition born out of organic proliferation.Michel Blazy is an artist of the uncontrollable.Unstable developments and biological alterations give rise to a changing plastic universe in which time is a leading player.

Michel Blazy works with living matter. He places it at the centre of his artistic output and lets it “do its work”. Evolving arrangements and ephemeral installations enable him to explore the uncontrolled proliferation of micro-organisms whose metamorphoses, transformations and changes of state are all factors necessary to the activation and development of the work – development understood in its most concrete sense.

A builder of random, fragile universes, Michel Blazy likes to manipulate materials, to attempt to control their disappearance and transformation, or on the contrary to be completely dependent on them. The micro events to which the adventure gives rise are crucial to the unfolding journey: instances of intentional or accidental germination, of the desiccation and decline of materials, of microscopic molds and rots, of the deterioration of surfaces, of the degeneration, transmutation or decrepitude of forms – all these febrile energies of living matter are claimed by the artist as operations crucial to the elaboration of the work.

An exhibition by Michel Blazy is experienced over time, by interrelating different moments, and by reading the links between the successive cycles. For the Palais de Tokyo, the artist is offering a project that is constructed step by step, in time and space. A permanent laboratory in which his experiments are installed, the place takes shape slowly, under the constant supervision of the artist. Observation of the upheavals, participation by the senses, transformation of the spaces, each of these elements will be a crucial stage in decoding the whole, like a succession of snapshots of a story with no end: by means of alchemies with an uncertain outcome, the artist gives us an inspired reading of that story.
[born 1966] Lives in Paris.