Gallery I

Annette Messager: Mischief and Tenderness

By Marc Sagaert Annette Messager (France, 1943 - ), Mes trophées (yeux ouverts), 1986-88, charcoal and watercolor on black and white photograph, 85 x 263 cm, collection FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen Annette Messager, Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale 2005, Les Messagers major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art Georges Pompidou Centre in 2007 and then in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul (South Korea), the Mori Art Tokyo Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in Espeo, Finland, exhibits for the first time in Latin America a large sample at the invitation of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey (MARCO) and the CCC-IFAL of the French Embassy. This grande dame of contemporary art has chosen, with the complicity of curator Jorge Contreras, a set of twenty seven pieces among her most important works of the past twenty years, from My trophies of 1987 to The War of the Worlds, held in 2008. We can mention, among others: The lines of the hand, Small effigies, Anatomy or Rumor as well as Black spots, Casino or Articulated-Disarticulated. ?Annette Messager, Marie Darieussecq writes, puts the past on a map; she tells in present tense a universal biography.? Queen of the manipulation, Annette Messager shows us a world animated by puppets, which she hangs on pikes, lined in processions or totems and moves like robots dancing robot dances under the watchful eye of the living. Swollen or deflated, creatures play as if they were children a strange sarabande that abruptly stops. Hanged- hung, the peculiar shapes disrupt the ride, make emptiness their field. When the wind blows, the ghosts seem to be in penance. The memory of their loved ones beat like a pulse. 140F º

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