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Patrick Clerc
A poetics of the fragment «The characteristic of mythical thought is expressed with a heterogeneous repertoire which, although extensive, is still limited. However, it must use it, whatever the task it set itself, as it has nothing else on hand. It appears as a kind of intellectual bricolage (… ) Absolutely brilliant. » Claude Levi-Strauss If Claude Levi-Strauss called primitive thought of» savage thought «he meant to say thereby that thought, unlike Western thought, does not da capo, but On the contrary, from pre-existing residual materials. In other words, the «savage mind», far from being a private thoughts of logic and order, is rather a kind of magical operation by which any object in the world can be given a new meaning and a new function. By Frederick Charles Baitinger Is why we can not prevent us from placing the work of Patrick Clerc under the sign of the «savage mind». For each of this artist shaman is not only the pure fruit of his imagination but perhaps even more, something like the product of a great work of alchemy in which any everyday object can be assigned a new aesthetic value and, therefore, a new power of symbolization. Against conceptual art - which takes over the art of engineering than that of the poet or the Builder - the art of Patrick Clerc opens the doors of true poetic fragment. Making use of recycled materials (son of iron wire, pieces of fabric, pieces of wood), as if to divert the contingency (tears, folds, twists, rust marks), his works resemble paintings abstract that are based diversion. But the art of the detour, the editing and juxtaposition, we must also add a spiritual dimension to reach, finally, the heart of these mythical creations. Composed in the manner of totems or votive offering, the works of Patrick Clerc raised, in language suitable to our time, the gesture of primitive artists, for whom art was never nothing but a means to make visible the forces, to give our imagination the way to express his visions. In his series titled «Minksi, » for example, a term that means in the language of the tribe of Central Africa Nganga, anything magic to protect people or help them solve their problems, not Patrick Clerc s'is not simply meet in a very aesthetically ordered fragments, but he managed also to give them a real force auratic project, which… |
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