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23/10/12 – 18h30 – Free entrance

Gallery of the art of time – Les presses – 73 avenue de l’URSS – Clermont-Ferrand

 
“The exhibition “Point de fuite” shows a part of the devices realized during a stay in Spain. I explored several sites of urbanization whose construction was interrupted following the bankruptcy of real estate companies. A lonely space bearing the traces of a speculated future population for which the infrastructures have no function. A sort of crossroads between a “contemporary vestige” and the meaning of a future. I have for the occasion “established” a field of experimentation.
I elaborate fictions on a common principle which consists in integrating and capturing a simple device in an urban environment. A process closely linked with the perspective as a technical means of representation and as a prospective operating mode. To reference and signify the mechanisms that condition and/or emancipate our spaces of action… The place/decor becomes the context (what the territory is to the building). The point of view (the framing) acts as a “revealing link”. The still or moving image becomes a portrait of a situation… “
David Blasco
 
Works presented:
“Video/Tape” / 2012 / 6’30” / 1080 x 720. (Video projection on hanging screen 120×67 cm)
“Gate” / 2012 / Subdivision, Felt. (Projected photo, 120 x 80 cm)
“Zone 3.1” / 2012 / Signs, Slogan. (Projected photo, 120 x 80 cm)
 

David Blasco is an artist trained at the art school of Clermont, then of Dijon. He currently lives in Clermont-Ferrand. David Blasco has exhibited his work in Arles (Rencontres internationales de la Photographie), Dijon, Vichy (H2O), Clermont and Toulouse. He received a creation grant from the DRAC Bourgogne in 2004, and from the DRAC Auvergne in 2012.

“When he is not creating them from scratch in model form, David Blasco is constantly looking for disenchanted generic spaces (building sites, dehumanized urban areas, giant parking lots, wastelands), in order to reappropriate them for a time and to inject his poetry of the double game, fed by concepts as diverse as order, invitation, fiction, leisure, competition, code and chaos.
In contrast to the performance which allows an active and physical recovery of the agora by an imperative action which is given to see or to hear, and which induces the presence of a public, David Blasco proceeds in silence, solitary… In his photos or videos, no human presence. Just the traces of his passage, tools or artifacts at his scale, retaining a certain ergonomics, but having lost any obvious function.”
Sébastien Maloberti