{"id":3978,"date":"2018-03-02T07:55:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T07:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clarapacquet.com\/?p=3978"},"modified":"2023-01-13T15:47:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T15:47:42","slug":"texte-catalogue-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clarapacquet.com\/?p=3978&lang=fr","title":{"rendered":"[TEXTE CATALOGUE] Marcus Kaiser"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(En anglais) texte introductif au catalogue du photographe Marcus Kaiser<\/a> It’s all<\/em> about the images we know so well,<\/em> Mars 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It\u2019s all about the images we know\nso well”<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Aber der Mensch ist nicht blo\u00df ein denkendes, er ist zugleich ein empfindendes Wesen. Er ist ein Ganzes, eine Einheit vielfacher, innig verbundner Kr\u00e4fte, und zu diesem Ganzen des Menschen mu\u00df das Kunstwerk reden, es mu\u00df dieser reichen Einheit, dieser einigen Mannigfaltigkeit in ihm entsprechen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Der Sammler und die Seinigen,<\/em> Sechster Brief.<\/strong>
<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s all about the\nimages we know so well<\/em> forms a collection of nine images gathering\nlandscapes, ornamental forms, portraits, pictures of beliefs or beauty, as well\nas whimsy. If one cannot trace at first glance a path of logical or\nbiographical coherence between the different motifs presented, a “family likeness”\nbegins to emerge over continued\nviewing. Following Goethe and his Elective\nAffinities,<\/em> Wittgenstein designates, by this term, similarities about which\nit is difficult to establish what element create the resemblance. For instance,\nthe members of the same lineage can all have a family resemblance without it\nbeing possible to determine what connects them. And this uncertainty originates\nendless discussions about differences and similarities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marcus Kaiser creates a collection of almost all\nphotographic images from his real or imaginary archives. With its ternary\nrhythm, this family of images that we\nknow so well<\/em> invites the viewer to immerse himself in the life of forms and\nsymbols. As a tribute to Cassirer, we could even say that it is a dive into the\nworld of “symbolic forms”. By “symbolic forms”, we should\nunderstand an impure transcendental. That is to say, an aptitude to marry\nnature and history, the theoretical and the empirical, the intelligible and the\nsensible, the idealistic philosophy and the social history. In a dialectical\nmovement, this open, dynamic, exponential sequence of images we know so well,<\/em> produces empirical variations around a\ntheme that, as well as an unobtrusive speculative pattern, structures the whole\nin an abstract way. Almost Platonic, this collection seems to murmur delicately\nthat our relationship to the real and its images consists in a contingent epiphany\nin its Joycean meaning, and therefore in an act of faith. Such encounters are apparitions\nthat unceasingly find, according to the coincidences of existence, their\ncorresponding echo in our individual and collective memory. To see is to first\nrecognize. To see is to remember.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since Ni\u00e9pce, photography, or “writing of\nthe sun”, has known many transformations and mutations. The nine images\ncollected by the artist plunge the viewer into a living history of photography\nwhere all phases of its evolution are represented, from the camera obscura<\/em> to digital photography.\nYet, according to Marcus Kaiser, photography does not cease to produce\nappearances from reality that could have found their incarnation in other\nforms, in other bodies, in other places. From Ideal Landscape,<\/em> with its C\u00e9zanne accents and depiction of the Lebanese\ncountryside, to the reproduction in painting of the first photograph taken in\n1827 by Ni\u00e9pce from his window in France near Chalon-sur-Sa\u00f4ne, Marcus Kaiser\u2019s\ncollection aims to catch the “nomadism of images”. We owe this\nexpression to Hans Belting in his opus An Anthropology of Images: Picture, Medium, Body<\/em>, designating the\nability of images to migrate from one medium to another. They create, in their\nmovement, in their incessant becoming, types, invariants \u2013 a certain\nimmobility, therefore \u2013 that cannot be grasped solely by pictorial\nreproduction. As Gilles Deleuze suggests in the documentary film Ab\u00e9c\u00e9daire,<\/em> nomads create the conditions of their own\nimmobility through movement. Thus, in their tricky balance between movement and\nfixity, these nomadic images collected \u2013 these ones we know so well \u2013 seem to\nrotate around a center yet never reach it, whereas this center would not exist\nwithout them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clara Pacquet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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