Sébastien de Ganay: Non-Places
Dienstag, 29. November 2016 - 19:00 Uhr
Galerie Steinek
Non-Places, the title of our up-coming solo exhibition with Sébastien de Ganay is also the name of a new ?Carton? type of sculptures.
About the words combination ?Non-Places?, Sébastien de Ganay says ??This is a reference to this meeting part or tightly interlinked sectors of two cartons. The cartons seem to overlap into each other producing a traffic zone or meeting area which is difficult to define. Therefore the word non-place. ... This segment of the cartons embedding into each other creates a mysterious zone where the viewer tries desperately to make sense or take a decision about naming it. But this zone resists any rationalization of space. We are facing a dilemma because we confront the impossible task of identifying the place.?
Those thoughts are equally relevant considering Sébastien de Ganay´s practice as an artist. Exploring the texture of folded canvas in his early years, exhausting all possible shapes variations of a simple cardboard box, paying careful attention to processes of space organization and perception – this is how Sébastien de Ganay is delicately building an arborescent family of works challenging the major codes currently ruling and splitting the words of art, architecture and design.
?Non-Places? - the exhibition - will cross art pieces from different cycles like a.o. ?Grids?, ?Carton Conversation?, ?Uncle Haim´s Slides?, ?Non-Place? - the sculptures - and ?Folded Flat? to expose Sébastien de Ganay´s favourite traffic and transfer zone between forms & meanings and their impacts on our daily life.