The exhibition of Philippe Droguet’s works on Level 1 of the macLYON brings together pieces from the museum’s collections and more recent works created since the beginning of the 2000s, including a 2013 creation – Couvre Feu – which is composed of approximately one hundred parakeet nesting boxes displayed in two rows, one above the other.
Philippe Droguet’s works are both organic, carnal and threatening, initiating a permanent back and forth between attraction and repulsion.
Philippe Droguet’s materials and objects are familiar but intriguing : paraffin freezing marmoreal folds, sharp nails covering the inside of a bath, shells, barks...
Wednesday to Sunday, 11am - 6pm
First floor of the museum
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Philippe Droguet’s pieces are appealing, organic and - for some - sensual at first glance, yet they also reveal themselves to be strange or even threatening. The forms he creates contain elements of both painting and sculpture..
The exhibition’s title – Blow Up – refers to the 1966 film of the same name by Michelangelo Antonioni which won the Golden Palm at Cannes in 1967. Blow Up plays along this theme to suggest a link between that which is visible at first glance and that which is revealed later.
Droguet selects his materials according to what they are to determine within his pieces and the projects he formulates for them. The list of materials is long, disparate and potentially infinite but they epitomize the wealth of his textures and the strangeness of his forms. Screws, upholsterer’s tacks, baths, nest boxes, gas cylinders, shoes and toothpicks, as well as animal bones, highway paint and shotgun cartridge gunpowder. Paraffin fixes permanent marmoreal creases into a sheet, upholsterer’s tacks, instead of being hammered home, stick to a surface and create a fur-like effect with their sharp points, and tree bark, the thickest of all skins, is itself protected by delicately applied coats of paraffin.
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Tombés
The cloth, which is laid upon or dropped onto a palette, has natural and elegant folds which have been fixed into place by the useof paraffin which has been applied in several coats with a paintbrush until they take on the appearance of marble or alabaster.
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Toothpicks fur
This imaginary animal with a female name is carrying the skull of a fox, and its fur is composed of
hundreds of toothpicks. The animal seems to have been frozen in a running pose with its disheveled coat of fur, its carnivorous jawbone and the chains around its neck, and they all give one a distinct impression which is anything but reassuring.
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Matériaux malléables
Philippe Droguet pours plaster into containers. He elongates the pile of shoes in ‘Battes’ until they take on the shape of legs, a process which is evocative of artifi cial limbs.
One can also see Entretien: in the manner of thick skin, bull bladders cover a desk with a lamp on it, a chair, an armchair, a stool, a trash can full of asphalt and a basin.
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Catalogue Philippe Droguet
Date created: 07/13/2020
Changed date: 07/13/2020
Avec des textes d’Anne Bertrand (critique d’art et commissaire d’expositions), Anaïd Demir (critique d'art) et Hervé Percebois ainsi qu'une préface de Thierry Raspail (directeur du Musée).
Lyon : Musée d'Art Contemporain, 2013. 106 p., ill. En coul.
Bilingue (français/anglais)
ISBN : 978-2-35906-102-4
Prix : 25 €
