OLIVIER FOULON

Curators: Anna Loporcaro, Christophe Gallois

Olivier Foulon’s practice consists of installations in which art history is employed and put into play. To do this, he appropriates artworks, documents, and theoretical and literary references. The techniques he uses include slide projection, photography, collage, drawing, painting and publishing. His exhibitions joyfully promote, question and displace issues concerning the ambiguity of relationships between the original, the copy and the reproduction, the spatial positioning of art and the function of the artist today.

For his exhibition at Mudam, Olivier Foulon presents a new series of artworks – paintings. These touch on obvious notions of figure and field, form and format, object and wall, light and location, material and reference. By introducing one or more elements which are external to painting, Olivier Foulon interrupts the production of the artwork and renders the issue more complex, as if he needed to exhibit an action as well as an object. The object is, he says, not only on the wall but has a certain relationship to it.

Like the exhibition, the title Prisma Pavillion, from the name of an Imbiss restaurant in Berlin, attempts, through a visual and linguistic montage, tackling different aspects of the same subject – transparency and opacity of painting – to bring together taste and speed of execution.