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May 11, 2006- July 15, 2006
Isabelle Champion Metadier
Chelsea Art Museum
556 W 22nd StThe Chelsea Art Museum, Home of the Miotte Foundation, is pleased to announce the opening of Timetrackers, a new body of work from celebrated French artist, Champion Métadier. This is the first time that this series of sixteen large-scale paintings and drawings will be shown in America. The exhibition which will run from May 11 to July 15, is curated by Julia Draganovic, Director of the Chelsea Art Museum.
The title of the exhibition, Timetrackers, posits a certain “science fiction” narrative to this series of work. But instead of launching the viewer into any number of hyper-kinetic visions of the future, these paintings rather envelop us, drawing the viewer backwards, inwards, almost to the very instant when “the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.” In this first verse of the genesis of Champion Métadier’s universe, elemental forms of vivid, candy-colored, acid shapes emerge from and move languidly over the face of what the artist calls, “The Void of Light,” an ultra white background that gives the paintings an almost hallucinogenic quality.
The painting’s soft lines and seeming lack of edges purposely confound analysis. There is no measurement here, no compass. The tension in the paintings lies in the mutability of Champion Métadier’s visual solutions, which at once seem to belong to one visual universe and, at the same time, posit contrary significations. There is no answer, no absolute to be found, never one final solution possible given such multiple choices of interpretation.
These are paintings of a world of sexual games, paradox and enigma, fable and riddle, in short, our world. The works depict something beyond, as yet, the binary oppositions of the relentlessly calculating and codifying human imagination and intelligence. In looking at this body of work, we are reminded that for all our vaunted reason, theories and knowledge, we are still but puzzled and amazed children, in over our heads. Indeed, it is not too much to say that the viewer is “led back to the situation of a child which for the first time faces an object and without any analytical tool imposed, applies no functional or emotional hieratical rule to what it sees and renews its novel experience each time its eyes go back to the object.” (Ann Hindry , 2002)
Champion Métadier has been the subject of solo exhibitions in Paris, Stockholm, Venice, Geneva, Cologne, Vienna, Tokyo, Lisbon, Buenes Aires, Montreal and New York. Her most recent solo shows took place at the Musée de Beaux Arts de Nancy. Her next exhibition will be on view at the MAMAC, the Museum of Modern Art and Contemporary Art in Nice in 2007.
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