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Une présentation de huit sculpteurs dont la préoccupation essentielle est de trouver le bon matériau.
While the name art pauvre refers to the Italian Arte Povera movement of the 1960s, it may also be viewed as an attitude, whose relevance to an age of overproduction of objects and images, often placing the emphasis on the market value of art, is examined in this show.. The eight featured artists, all sculptors, pay special attention to the medium in an open approach whereby the work is tightly bound up with both the artist's physical involvement and the host site.. Rather than a finished product, the artwork appears as a process, recalling certain experiments of the 1970s. These artists choose whatever materials come to hand: expanded polystyrene, plaster, makeup products, peat, cash receipts, polythene, offcuts of plywood or spare medium, often packaging materials or other supplies found in the studio. Certain social occurrences, such as the meeting of smokers or the 'modern' aesthetic of metal structures, well grounded in contemporary life, can in turn be used as materials, just like clay or wood..
