Euville originates from a commission requested by the Tourism Office and the Pays de Commercy Association\u00a0of local authorities (Meuse) within the framework of the New Patrons program proposed by Fondation de France\u00a0and the interpark cooperation project \u2018Paysage Industriel\u2019, which links the regional natural parks of Lorraine,\u00a0Monts d\u2019Ard\u00e8che, Pilat and Vercors.<\/p>\n
The work consists of three distinct sections. At first, the eye wanders over the artist\u2019s photographs of the interiors\u00a0of old extraction galleries: walls of limestone and stones in subtle tones, the mysterious penumbra of partially\u00a0banked-up passages, unreal architectures and lights. Halfway through, Pierre Briot and John Paul Streiff\u2019s text\u00a0(extracts from the exhibition catalogue, \u00c9pop\u00e9e de la Pierre (The Epic Tale of Stone)) traces the daily life\u00a0of a quarryman according to testimonies from witnesses who have since disappeared. It prefaces photographs\u00a0of graffiti drawn in the galleries, a glimpse into the intimate and human aspects of every day life in the quarries.\u00a0Some illustrate joyful fantasy; others are dreamy musings, meditation, and a reflection on their apparitional\u00a0context. The style and the themes are varied: a mysterious bicycle drawn in several places around the gallery,\u00a0a peremptory drawing of a bottle of wine, a delicate small boat, a man in a hat smoking a cigarette, a woman\u00a0wearing a low chignon, columns of figures, symbols of political struggle\u2026<\/p>\n
Each photograph addresses\u00a0a narrative constructed by Susanne Bu\u0308rner during various visits to Euville and its surroundings. The choice\u00a0of big characters in the layout of the mini -narratives suggests a collection of stories and images intended\u00a0to play through the memoirs, rather than of a work of erudition. The relationship between text and image avoids\u00a0straightforward illustration and gives breathing space and distance. Euville deploys multiple visual links:\u00a0of prehistoric art \u2013 the drawing reproduced on the cover recalls the numerous abstract symbols seen in painted\u00a0cave decoration \u2013 to art and to conceptual drawing. Finally, the graphic conception borrows freely from\u00a0history of art books made in the 1950\u2019s-1960\u2019s: the rigid cloth-bound cover, the classical unrolling of images,\u00a0the consideration of detail within the ensemble and the attention paid to the quality of photographic reproductions.\u00a0This is a purposeful loan that addresses the question of preserving and sharing these meditative commentaries,\u00a0the emotional and aesthetic quality of graffiti dedicated to disappearance and its mysterious aura within the\u00a0impressive context of old underground quarries.<\/p>\n
Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Oyhar\u00e7abal<\/p>\n
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