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Lascaux Man (Sic), 2012
Light-sensitive emulsion on Wall
530 x 320 cm
Exhibition view: “La Jeunesse est un art. Jubiläum Manor Kunstpreis 2012”, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, 2012
Light-sensitive emulsion on Wall
530 x 320 cm
Exhibition view: “La Jeunesse est un art. Jubiläum Manor Kunstpreis 2012”, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, 2012
“Pascal Schwaighofer’s work for the Aargauer Kunsthaus is an analytical exploration of the cave at Lascaux. Transposing onto the walls of the museum fragments of Georges Bataille’s comments on the cave frescoes, the artist opens up a mental space conducive to stirring thoughts and memories.
Using a technical process involving various transformations – digitization, printing, projection and transfer by photosensitive emulsion – the excerpts from the original essay, itself already translated into English and modified by some anonymous annotations, are loaded with multiple timelines and become traces evoking emergence and disappearance at once. (…)”
Séverine Fromaigeat, in La jeunesse est un art.
Jubiläum Manor Kunstpreis, Aargauer Kunsthaus,
Aarau, Edizioni Periferia, 2012
