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Studies for “Malady of the Infinite”

Studies for “Malady of the Infinite” ©EP2024

Autriche, 2019

Série de huit impressions directes sur papier, encadrées, 50 × 70 cm chacun

5+1

acheté à l'artiste en 2024


L’installation sculpturale d’Eva Grubinger, Malady of the Infinite (Mal de l’infini), présentée et acquise par Belvedere 21, à Vienne, est représentée en deux dimensions dans une série de dessins. L’installation se compose de mines navales qui émergent à moitié du sol du musée et semblent menacer un immense yacht, telles David face à Goliath. Cette oeuvre d’art immersive de grande taille est pleine de tensions et de dynamiques allusives. Celles-ci sont explorées plus en détail dans les dessins de l’artiste, qui renforcent les asymétries de pouvoir entre les mines et le yacht. Le déséquilibre de pouvoir se manifeste dans l’un des dessins, où l’on peut voir le yacht se faire aspirer par une mine. Un autre dessin montre des mines et des cockpits se faire avaler dans un vortex sans fin. L’oeuvre d’art semble représenter notre époque d’extrême financiarisation plongée dans un conflit symbolique. Elle s’attaque à un système qui crée l’insatisfaction à la fois chez les défavorisés privés de tout et chez les ultrariches, qui n’en ont jamais assez.

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Studies for Malady of the Infinite artwork

Studies for “Malady of the Infinite”

Eva GRUBINGER

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