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SELECTED PROJECTS
Five for a foretaste...
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...On 1 January 1999, Gianni Motti activated his Big Crunch Clock for the first time. The piece features twenty figures
representing billions of years calculated down to tenths of seconds. Why such accuracy? Because the countdown of the five billion
years separating the sun from its explosive end has already begun. Ironically the clock is supposed to run on solar power, whereas
it is that brightly beaming eye of heaven that in fact condemns it to destruction. — Karine Tissot, Objects of Contemporary Art

(...) Le 1er janvier 1999, Gianni Motti met en marche pour la première fois Big Crunch Clock. L’objet
comporte vingt chiffres, des milliards d’années aux dixièmes de secondes. Pourquoi autant de précision ?
Parce que le compte à rebours des cinq milliards d’années qui séparent le soleil de son explosion a
désormais commencé. Non sans ironie, l’horloge est censée s’actionner grâce à l’énergie
solaire, alors que c’est précisément l’astre céleste qui la voue à sa destruction.
— Karine Tissot, Les Objects de l’art contemporain
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The subject of Nick Laessing’s work is the pseudoscientific research that has developed over the last two centuries right
alongside official science. The artist, for example, researched the attempts that have been made to obtain a source of perpetual
energy, getting in touch with a community of amateur scientists that holds the presumed secret...
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Artissima 16

Il lavoro di Nick Laessing ha per argomento le ricerche pseudoscientifiche che, negli ultimi due secoli, si sono sviluppate
parallelamente alla scienza ufficiale. L’artista, ad esempio, si è documentato sui tentativi di ottenere una fonte
di energia perpetua, entrando in contatto con comunità di scienziati amatoriali che ne detengono il presunto segreto...
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Artissima 16
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Employed for both decoration as well as composition, line falls within the province of two very different uses.
The hair of Titian’s women is a hazy mass of arabesques, faint to the point of translucency; Fragonard’s colors waltz
beneath his spirited brushstroke; and Arabic writing makes line wind and whirl to the will of complex motifs.
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Déborah Laks, Bernar Venet, the Hypothesis of the Straight Line

Employée à la fois pour la décoration et la composition, la ligne relève de deux usages
très différents. Les chevelures des femmes du Titien sont vaporeuses d’arabesques légères
jusqu’à la translucidité, les couleurs de Fragonard valsent dans une touche
enlevée et l’écriture arabe fait serpenter la ligne au gré de motifs complexes.
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Déborah Laks, Bernar Venet, l’hypothèse de la ligne droite
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Legend has it that one day after his return home, Rodrigo de Xeres began to smoke the tobacco he had brought back from Cuba.
Thinking him possessed by the devil, his wife denounced de Xeres and had him thrown into the dungeons of the Inquisition. When
he was freed years later –holy smoke! –using tobacco had become commonplace.
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Charles del Todesco, The Havana Cigar

La légende veut que Rodrigo de Jerez, de retour chez lui, se mit à fumer le tabac qu’il avait rapporté
de Cuba. Sa femme, le croyant possédé par le démon, le dénonça et le fit emprisonner dans les
cachots du Saint-Office. Lorsqu’il en sortit bien des années plus tard, l’usage du tabac s’était
banalisé.
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Charles del Todesco, Havane : cigare de légende
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Paul Valéry wrote, "All of the arts live on words. Every work of art demands that one responds to it, and a
‘literature,’ written or no, immediate or meditated, is indivisible from what drives man to produce..."
Artists in Geneva would like to pique readers’ curiosity before the art of every age, because art is always about
making discoveries for oneself. — Karine Tissot, Artists in Geneva, from 1400 to the Present

Paul Valéry écrivait : « Tous les arts vivent de paroles. Toute oeuvre exige qu’on lui
réponde et une
"littérature" écrite ou non, immédiate ou méditée, est indivisible de ce
qui pousse l’homme à produire... » Artistes à Genève souhaite attiser la curiosité
des lecteurs face à l’art de tout temps qu’il s’agit toujours de découvrir par
soi-même. — Karine Tissot, Artistes à Genève, de 1400 à nos jours
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