Work from the Collection

Sans titre

Artist: Richard Fauguet
Date: 2000–2004
Medium: Sculpture
Materials: Ping-pong table, Stainless steel rods, Ping-pong balls
Dimensions: Variable dimensions
Collection: Lafayette anticipations - Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin
Ping-pong is a theatre of action—drawing room theatre, but one that still generates its own spectacle. Richard Fauguet reproduces with precision the trajectory of the balls passing from one side of the net to the other. The viewer of this work is thus able to be everywhere at once and to perceive fixed, condensed durations, as in a “Matrix effect”. The sight of the path of these ping-pong balls recalls the fascinating scientific images of Harold Edgerton, or the late works of the American photographer Berenice Abbott who experimented with the effect of a strobe light on the bounces of a golf ball. Through their movement, Richard Fauguet’s ping-pong balls, inanimate objects by nature, seem able to express a behaviour: there is the falling, rolling ball, the match ball, the triumphant, the runaway, and the “let” serve that barely crosses the net. The balls seem cosmic, moved by suspended destinies as if they were spinning an old mechanical orrery, a machine invented to understand the movement of the planets in the solar system. Our attention, captivated by the magic of the suspended movement, enables us to glimpse an imaginary world where banal objects seem to distance themselves, appearing a little strange to us, revealing their unsuspected kinship with other times, other cultures, other dimensions, other worlds.

Exhibitions

Richard Fauguet - Daniel Schlier
Frac Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême (France)
from 16 Oct 2015 to 16 Jan 2016
Pop up 2 - Richard Fauguet
44 GL, Paris (France)
from 21 Jun to 12 Jul 2013
De leur temps, 10ème anniversaire du prix Marcel Duchamp
Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg (France)
from 05 Nov 2010 to 28 Feb 2011
Ni vu, ni connu
FRAC-Artothèque Nouvelle-Aquitaine Limousin, Limoges (France)
from 12 Mar to 12 Jun 2010
De leur temps
Musée d'Art moderne & Contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg (France)
from 19 Jan to 24 Feb 2006
Antidote 1
La Galerie des Galeries, Paris (France)
from 01 Oct to 29 Oct 2005
The Molecular History of Everything
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (Australie)
from 17 Dec 2004 to 27 Feb 2005
Pas d’fumée, pas d’feu
Galerie Art : Concept, Paris (France)
from 10 Jan to 28 Feb 2004
Qu'est-ce que la photo sculpture ? Collection FRAC Limousin
Les coopérateurs, Limoges (France)
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