We attended an opening at Clark Gallery yesterday, featuring the work “Interlinked Pentacles” by Jean-Pierre Gauthier.
Jean-Pierre Gauthier’s work Pentacles imbriqués, which follows in the recent sculpture series “Instants angulaires,” is presented as a mobile structure programmed to move an assemblage of chrome steel poles. These poles-actually shower curtain supports-draw disjointed movements in the air that ceaselessly deconstruct and reconstruct “variable-geometry forms.” The audio capture and amplification of the internal resonances caused by rice grains hidden inside these metallic tubes generate a subtle soundtrack. The structure’s morphology and atypical motions in combination with the reuse of a banal object evoke a recurrent theme in Gauthier’s work, i.e. the fictional and disordered world of an obsessive-compulsive janitor. The sculptural, mobile and audio dimensions of the ensemble all partake in this unusual and hectic world.
JP visited Bergen in 2007, exhibiting at Lydgalleriet, and also gave two workshops and an artist presentation at BEK. It was nice seeing him and his girlfriend again. As an added bonus, I also got to say hi to Peter Flemming. Peter was an artist in residence at BEK in 2003.
