Untitled (Auric Outline, Liz)
Untitled (Auric Outline, Liz) presents a figure whose contours are drawn on the corner of a wall with seven coloured lines. The figure is slightly tilted, as if it is trying to look behind the wall without being seen. The work contains several recurring motifs in Peter Coffin’s work: the silhouette, which he often uses to suggest forms, and the colours of the rainbow, which also evoke the spectrum of light. This work, which reflects the artist’s taste for pseudoscience, refers to an esoteric concept popularized by the New Age movement, the adjective auric being associated with the aura, the luminous field that supposedly surrounds the body. Here the artist plays on the boundary between visible and invisible: the figure hidden behind the wall is seen by the viewer through its aura, supposedly imperceptible and decomposed according to the colours of the visible spectrum.
Text written by Romane Grouille as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Exhibition
La Galerie des Galeries, Paris (France)
from 13 Sep to 03 Nov 2007