Rhizome - Lijiang art center
丽江迪娜恪恩美术工艺品有限公司
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You are invited to
Catherine MELIN’s art exhibition
introducing her artwork in Rhizome
Thursday, April, 26th 2012, 19h00
兹定于2012年4月26日星期四,19时
在‘藕’丽江艺术中心举行艺术展览开幕会，
很高兴邀请您的光临,
有Catherine Melin 的展览
Free entrance 免费入场权
address / 地址 : Rhizome - Lijiang art center,
Lijiang shi, gu cheng qu, jinhong shuinichang pangbian xiangnei - bus 2, 13
丽江市古城区金虹路, 金虹水泥厂旁边巷内 － 2、13路公交车
tel : 电话 0(86)888 510 98 05
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Rhizome is an artists’ residence and place for cultural events in Lijiang (Yunnan, China) which explores the borders between art, local life and environment.
‘藕’艺术中心是个给艺术家的住处，也位于丽江（中国，云南）的一个探险美术、本地生活和自然环境之间边界的文化活动中心。
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Catherine Melin’s approach to art is a questioning of the “possible.” In philosophy this is differentiated from the impossible as much as it does from the necessary and the incidental, other categories of the modality. What is possible in a district undergoing rehabilitation or in an improbable urban space. What can art do with this reality?
In residence in the Basque country, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Scotland, Canada or Moscow, Catherine Melin is interested in the sudden appearance of life in the urban landscapes which she photographs and films. In reworking these visual records, Catherine will keep a pier, a bridge, a wall or a roundabout, a greenhouse, a fence, foundations, materials on a building site, marks on the ground or elements of urban furniture. She will notice the lines in space outlining skateboard ramps, trampolines, and the metal structures that make up these structures of impetus, these instruments of propulsion, with the video capturing bodies in movement. All of these discoveries are made whilst in a travelling mode, which is to say open to surprise and which form the raw material for her future installations. These installations associate wall drawings, video projections and constructions, in an interplay of derived elements, changes of scale, impossible perspectives and vertiginous weightlessness.
Catherine MELIN’s residency is granted by the French Consulate of Chengdu.
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