Zone 30 - Art public, Rue centrale 6, 3960 Sierre
"Return trip
Thus, through six images that become almost abstract, she creates a rhythmic, poetic composition where sky and mountains invert and intermingle, where emptiness becomes fullness, revealing new pyramidal forms and overturning our classical perception of the alpine landscape and the notion of the sublime that is often associated with it.
Drawing on recovered slides once belonging to a couple of tourists who loved the Valais mountains, she chose to reappropriate them with two gestures as simple as they are powerful: turning them upside down, and classifying them according to the shades of blue in the sky. The result is a panoramic landscape that follows the slope of Rue Centrale, reconstituted using the principle of the Cyanometer. This tool, invented in 1789 by Genevan physicist and naturalist Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, was used to compare the color of the sky at different altitudes:
"It is a fact known to all who have reached the summits of high mountains, that the sky there appears darker blue than on the plains. [...] Since then, [...], I have been working on these variations".
Thus, using De Saussure's research as a starting point, Delphine Renault plays between scientific tools and the tourist eye, to recreate her own landscape, favoring the sky over the peaks, and transforming the shades of blue derived from colorimetric references into the skies of amateur photographs.
Biography
Oscillating between Paris and Geneva, Delphine Renault graduated from the Lyon and Rennes Écoles supérieures des Beaux-Arts, then from HEAD in 2010. She has presented her work at the Palais de l'Athénée, Halle Nord, Zabriskie point, Hit and Milkshake agency in Geneva. She has also shown in Yverdon-les-Bains, Basel, Sion, Lausanne and Vevey, as well as in Paris, Grenoble, Annecy, Amiens and Beauvais. His work can be seen on the Lac des Vernes in Meyrin, at the Gland landfill site, in Veyrier and at the Université de Toulouse. His work is part of the collections of Grand Lancy, the Communauté de communes du Grand Pic St Loup, the Canton of Vaud and the FMAC Genève.
Delphine Renault's multidisciplinary artistic practice plays with notions of status and function, as well as the viewer's point of view. The visitor is often immersed in site-specific installations.
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
Drawing on recovered slides once belonging to a couple of tourists who loved the Valais mountains, she chose to reappropriate them with two gestures as simple as they are powerful: turning them upside down, and classifying them according to the shades of blue in the sky. The result is a panoramic landscape that follows the slope of Rue Centrale, reconstituted using the principle of the Cyanometer. This tool, invented in 1789 by Genevan physicist and naturalist Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, was used to compare the color of the sky at different altitudes:
"It is a fact known to all who have reached the summits of high mountains, that the sky there appears darker blue than on the plains. [...] Since then, [...], I have been working on these variations".
Thus, using De Saussure's research as a starting point, Delphine Renault plays between scientific tools and the tourist eye, to recreate her own landscape, favoring the sky over the peaks, and transforming the shades of blue derived from colorimetric references into the skies of amateur photographs.
Biography
Oscillating between Paris and Geneva, Delphine Renault graduated from the Lyon and Rennes Écoles supérieures des Beaux-Arts, then from HEAD in 2010. She has presented her work at the Palais de l'Athénée, Halle Nord, Zabriskie point, Hit and Milkshake agency in Geneva. She has also shown in Yverdon-les-Bains, Basel, Sion, Lausanne and Vevey, as well as in Paris, Grenoble, Annecy, Amiens and Beauvais. His work can be seen on the Lac des Vernes in Meyrin, at the Gland landfill site, in Veyrier and at the Université de Toulouse. His work is part of the collections of Grand Lancy, the Communauté de communes du Grand Pic St Loup, the Canton of Vaud and the FMAC Genève.
Delphine Renault's multidisciplinary artistic practice plays with notions of status and function, as well as the viewer's point of view. The visitor is often immersed in site-specific installations.
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
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