Volute

François Morelli

Volute

Installation, drawing, painting, print medium, sculpture, video
September 27 – November 1, 2014
Précarité
2013
Ink wash drawing and ink stamp on paper
101.6 x 243.84 cm / 40 x 96 in
La veuve
2013
Ink wash and rubber stamping on paper
101.6 x 243.84 cm / 40 x 96 in
Chimère
2012
Acrylic and rubber stamping on canvas
165.1 x 285.75 cm / 65 x 112.5 in
La mesure - Vingt trois
2014
Digital print
55,8 x 72,39 cm / 22 x 28.5 in
Ed. 1 of 5
La mesure - Mégots
2014
Digital print
55,8 x 72,39 cm / 22 x 28.5 in
Ed. 1 of 5
La mesure - Briquet
2014
Digital print
55,8 x 72,39 cm / 22 x 28,5 in
Ed. 1 of 5
La mesure - Plume
2014
Digital print
55,8 x 72,39 cm / 22 x 28,5 in
Ed. 1 of 5
A.T.F
2014
Wire, stools, wooden figure model, wooden hand model, medicine ball, and glass plates
134.62 x 109.22 x 109.22 cm / 53 x 43 x 43 in
La gamelle
2013
182,9 x 99,06 x 15,24 cm / 72 x 39 x 6 in
Le chandelier
2014
Wire and chandelier
69.85 x 99.06 x 99.06 cm / 27.5 x 39 x 39 in
La canne
2013
Wire and walking stick
71.12 x 99.06 x 82.55 cm / 28 x 39 x 32.5 in
La sœur cadette (Les trois sœurs)
2014
Wire, metal spheres, mannequin's head and hat
78.74 x 99.06 x 99.06 cm / 31 x 39 x 39 in
Lampe de chevet 1
2014
Wire, orange extension cord and blue bulb
83.82 x 104.14 x 87.63 cm / 33 x 41 x 34.5 in
Lampe de chevet 1
2014
Wire, orange extension cord and blue lightbulb
83.82 x 104.14 x 87.63 cm / 33 x 41 x 34.5 in
La sœur benjamine (Les trois sœurs)
2014
Wire, rubber tire, mannequin's head and hat
83.82 x 99.06 x 99.06 cm / 33 x 39 x 39 in
Le frère lutteur
2014
Wooden head, wrestler's mask, blue lightbulb, wire and medicine ball
83.82 x 99.06 x 99.06 cm / 33 x 39 x 39 in
Le frère lutteur
2014
Wooden head, wrestler's mask, blue lightbulb, wire and medicine ball
83.82 x 99.06 x 99.06 cm / 33 x 39 x 39 in
La soeur ainée (Les trois sœurs)
2014
Wire, pillow, acrylic drawn on pillow-case, pillow, mannequin's head and hat
85.09 x 99.06 x 99.06 cm / 33.5 x 39 x 39 in
Trépas
2014
Paul Boulva Lotus chairs and wire
88.9 x 208.28 x 71.12 cm / 35 x 82 x 28 in
Lampe de chevet 2
2014
Wire, napkin dispenser, orange extension cord
90.17 x 99.06 x 99.06 cm / 35.5 x 39 x 39 in
Lampe de chevet 2
2014
Wire, napkin dispenser, orange extension cord
90.17 x 99.06 x 99.06 cm / 35.5 x 39 x 39 in
Ventouse
2014
Plunger, wire, stool and napkin dispensers
134.62 x 109.22 x 109.22 cm / 53 x 43 43 in
Dessin blanc #32
2014
Ink on parchment paper
43,2 x 35,6 / 17 x 14
Dessin blanc #63
2014
Ink on parchment paper
43,2 x 35,6 / 17 x 14
Dessin blanc #58
2014
Ink on parchment paper
43,2 x 35,6 / 17 x 14
Dessin noir #58
2014
Digital print
43,2 x 35,6 / 17 x 14
Dessin noir #63
2014
Digital print
43,2 x 35,6 / 17 x 14
Dessin noir #32
2014
Digital print
43,2 x 35,6 / 17 x 14

His exhibition Volute addresses the memory of objects and the legacy of surrealist and conceptual sculptures. As a material and critical investigation of the everyday through an idiosyncratic inter-textual approach, it spans ten years of performativity, expanded drawing and object making.

His exhibition Volute addresses the memory of objects and the legacy of surrealist and conceptual sculptures. As a material and critical investigation of the everyday through an idiosyncratic inter-textual approach, it spans ten years of performativity, expanded drawing and object making.

Precariously located between virtual and spatial renderings, his poetic prosthetics map thingness and plot obsolescence. They mark the everyday passage of people and time as outcomes of chance or scheduled encounters with story telling. They also appear as spiralling meditations on collecting inspired by Irish poet William Butler Yeats’ ideas on the gyre and the plastic islands adrift in our oceans. One hundred years after R Mutt’s Fountain, these ready-mades foreground the tension between craft and design; between progress and nothingness. In essence, these accumulations of castaway elementsjuxtapose a début-de-siècle pataphysics with commodity fetishism, hence reconciling Morellli’s fascination with found objects and the stuff of life.

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