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David Ancelin - Nuances tropicales
From 28/01/2010 to 06/03/2010
Artists :
David Ancelin
REVIEW :
According to a friend of the artist, the coastitis is a disease contracted by the expatriates in Kenya. Staying for long stretches of time by the seaside, they begin drinking and once completely drunk, go into boats to smash themselves against the rocks. To save the last ones, it is necessary to take them away from the coast for a while.
According to an article of the New York Times, the coastitis is a disease on the coast of Kenya, more exactly at the level of the archipelago of Lamu. The symptoms show themselves by an aversion for the slightest effort and an inclination to stretch out under lemon trees whilst looking for a rest of strength to press fruits. The only known remedy consists in going inland.
According to David Ancelin, there remains differences in these two versions that should not be clarified. The exhibition Nuances tropicales rests on these ambiguous connections between language and story.
By gleaning here and there left out objects, he undertakes an analysis of the sculptural potential of their volumes. Their shapes are selected for their immediate identification and their underlying common meaning. These are then manipulated and analyzed. Certain aspects, technical, aesthetic or poetic, allow to make and to undo knots of meaning. It is there that lyrical mechanics take place between materials and what they suggest.
Commonplace referents (maritime, urban) are attached to these plastic manipulations and are a pretext to stage them. The works play their fragile and unstable positions autonomously. Their fragility is the risky and rickety base where they remain between the walls of the gallery.
Sculptures, screen printings and paintings answer by associations of ideas, aesthetic correspondences, creating bridges between flatness and volume, uniqueness and multiplicity. The narrative fragments intercross and weave the imaginary threads of an imperceptible abstract canvas. There lies the indecisive relationship between formal interpretation and its literal translation.
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