The Cleaner, Paris
Artist:
Audrey Nervi
Date:
2005
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Materials:
Oil paint, Canvas
Dimensions:
25 x 25 x 3 cm
Collection:
Lafayette anticipations - Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin
Domain:
Peinture
In this painting with hyper-realistic touches, Audrey Nervi documents an incongruous situation she observed during a rave. In the centre of the canvas, she has captured the posture of a blue-haired boy sitting on a white vacuum a few steps away from CRS riot police trucks. In the larger continuum that the work suggests, numerous silhouettes are outlined in the warm light of a car’s headlights. In contrast to the agitation of this mass of bodies at the edge of the canvas, this individual seems to have been captured unwittingly in this calm pose. Isolated, he has been designated by the artist—not without irony—as The Cleaner, no doubt because of his peaceful demeanour—the only way to end the chaos. Here, Audrey Nervi sets him up as a symbol, referring to an entire marginalised section of society which, in her painting, takes on an entirely different status.
Text written by Elea Dargelos as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Text written by Elea Dargelos as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Exhibition
Antidote 2
La Galerie des Galeries, Paris (France)
from 27 Oct to 09 Dec 2006
La Galerie des Galeries, Paris (France)
from 27 Oct to 09 Dec 2006