Endnote, Tooth, Circle
The quasi-monochrome white diptych Endnote, Tooth, Circle is a fraction of a much larger project. The work consists of two stretched paper squares coated with multiple layers of paint and covered with a piece of Plexiglas from an abandoned bus shelter. By integrating this found and already damaged object, Ian Kiaer highlights the vulnerability and fallibility that resides in each work. Like a beacon of light, the light green sun attracts and focuses the eye, radiates and passes through the work. Kiaer questions the existence of forms and human perception by creating a work that is timeless, indefinable, and removed from reality, where the absence of narrative offers the viewer infinite possibilities for recomposition. This piece from the Endnote, Tooth project functions as an experimental arrangement which precedes the materialization of thought. In his deconstruction process, the artist uses the fragment or sample to question notions of totality and permanence.
Text written by Oriane Poret as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Exhibition
Galerie Marcelle Alix, Paris (France)
from 05 Apr to 27 May 2017