FROM THE EROTICA TO LIFE LIKE ANIMALS AND BIRDS ...

I am always exhilarated when I come out of the Picasso Museum. Lots of questions buzzing around in my head but the catalogue should provide some answers! So I would go onto the Kartsen Greve gallery and see what Claire Morgan’s work was all about. (To be honest Laurent had sent me pictures which enticed me to go.) A family group too left the Picasso museum at the same time and headed for the K.G. They were a nice family. A couple of adolescents who had been interested in the Picasso erotica and two-8/10-year-olds who had asked a lot of intelligent questions. I wondered what would happen here. 

Claire Morgan is of Irish origin and apparently an artist who is sought on the international scene today. It’s the kind of remark which I tire of fast as we can’t know all the artists but sometimes it’s as if you were asked, « Oh you didn’t know so-and-so… » as if you were a complete ignoramus.

This is an exhibition created for the gallery space. I might add that it is quite beautiful. It’s strange indeed. There are four installations which predominate with the bodies of taxidermy animals that seem to be contained within synthetic or alien environments. As you will see, the setting is quite beautiful as if hanging in space. But symbolically could it also mean the destruction of a natural environment ? It could also be our will to exist - and yet we know that our environment and everything around us, is very destructive











 


Claire actually does the taxidermy herself striving to give the appearance of life to an animal which is dead. It is certainly the case and makes the contrast between the ethereal and the animal « beautifully macabre » . 




 















Her paintings too,  take this further




It was here the father started chatting to me. He was more down to earth than I felt about her work but listening to his two younger sons, they seemed to be agreeing with me. It was a nice encounter! It had been a wonderful and constructive day.

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Michael Keane a dit…
Love the arrangements but taxidermy I hate.
6/12/17 21:42
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